Runs grep (ripgrep's library) in the background, allows interactively pick its results and open selected match in text editor of choice (vim by default).
igrep
supports macOS and Linux. Reportedly it works on Windows as well.
ig [OPTIONS] <PATTERN|--type-list> [PATHS]...
<PATTERN> Regular expression used for searching.
<PATHS>... Files or directories to search. Directories are searched recursively.
If not specified, searching starts from current directory.
-., --hidden Search hidden files and directories. By default, hidden files and
directories are skipped.
--editor <EDITOR> Text editor used to open selected match.
[possible values: check supported text editors section]
--context-viewer <VIEWER> Context viewer position at startup [default: none]
[possible values: none, vertical, horizontal]
--custom-command <COMMAND> Custom command used to open selected match.
Must contain {file_name} and {line_number} tokens (check Custom Command section).
-g, --glob <GLOB> Include files and directories for searching that match the given glob.
Multiple globs may be provided.
-h, --help Print help information
-i, --ignore-case Searches case insensitively.
-L, --follow Follow symbolic links while traversing directories
-S, --smart-case Searches case insensitively if the pattern is all lowercase.
Search case sensitively otherwise.
-t, --type <TYPE_MATCHING> Only search files matching TYPE.
Multiple types may be provided.
-T, --type-not <TYPE_NOT> Do not search files matching TYPE-NOT.
Multiple types-not may be provided.
--theme <THEME> UI color theme [default: dark] [possible values: light, dark]
--type-list Show all supported file types and their corresponding globs.
-V, --version Print version information.
-w, --word-regexp Only show matches surrounded by word boundaries
NOTE: ig
respects ripgrep
's configuration file if RIPGREP_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable is set and reads all supported options from it.
Key | Action |
---|---|
q , Esc , Ctrl+c |
Quit |
? , F1 |
Open/close the keymap popup |
Down , j |
Scroll down in the keymap popup |
Up , k |
Scroll up in the keymap popup |
Right , l |
Scroll right in the keymap popup |
Left , h |
Scroll left in the keymap popup |
Down , j |
Select next match |
Up ,k |
Select previous match |
Right , l , PageDown |
Select match in next file |
Left , h , PageUp |
Select match in previous file |
gg , Home |
Jump to the first match |
Shift-g , End |
Jump to the last match |
Enter |
Open current file |
dd , Delete |
Filter out selected match |
dw |
Filter out all matches in current file |
v |
Toggle vertical context viewer |
s |
Toggle horizontal context viewer |
+ |
Increase context viewer size |
- |
Decrease context viewer size |
F5 |
Open search pattern popup |
igrep
supports Vim, Neovim, nano, VS Code (stable and insiders), Emacs, EmacsClient, Helix, SublimeText, Micro, Intellij, Goland, Pycharm and Less. If your beloved editor is missing on this list and you still want to use igrep
please file an issue or use custom command.
To specify builtin editor, use one of the following (listed in order of their precedence):
--editor
option,$IGREP_EDITOR
variable,$VISUAL
variable,$EDITOR
variable.
Higher priority option overrides lower one. If neither of these options is set, vim is used as a default.
Users can provide their own command used to open selected match using --custom-command
option. It must contain {file_name} and {line_number} tokens. Example command used to open file in Vim looks as follows:
--custom-command "vim +{line_number} {file_name}"
The same argument can also be passed via the $IGREP_CUSTOM_EDITOR
environment variable. Example:
IGREP_CUSTOM_EDITOR="vim +{line_number} {file_name}"
igrep
binaries can be downloaded from GitHub.
brew tap konradsz/igrep https://github.com/konradsz/igrep.git
brew install igrep
scoop install igrep
pacman -S igrep
igrep
is available for Alpine Edge. It can be installed via apk after enabling the testing repository.
apk add igrep
Build and install from source using Rust toolchain by running: cargo install igrep
.