Closed khinshankhan closed 5 years ago
Ag.el is a frontend, which means it lets you use the ag
command inside Emacs. The ag
command does the hard work of doing the search.
"The silver searcher" is just another name for ag
. You need both ag
and a frontend like ag.el to use ag from Emacs on a fresh install.
I hope that helps! :)
This is not a bug or feature request. My google-fu has failed me, and so I'm asking here. What is silversearcher-ag-el? I'm using ubuntu, but I doubt that will matter. This package's description is
and its home page is
What does it mean by frontend for emacs? How does it differ from silversearcher-ag? I've installed and tried both both without seeing any change? I figured the el had something to do with emacs based off of elisp, but as evident by this link one should install the ggreer binary and use the melpa package. What would one need to properly set up ag with emacs on a fresh install? What purpose does silversearcher-ag-el serve? (yes, I did make an similar issue in ggreer's, but I've decided that it may be better answered here). Sorry if I asked too many questions :pensive: