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Wilfred / ag.el

An Emacs frontend to The Silver Searcher
http://agel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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What is silversearcher-ag-el? #156

Closed khinshankhan closed 5 years ago

khinshankhan commented 5 years ago

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

Description-en: Emacs frontend to ag
 The Silver Searcher (a.k.a. ag) is very fast grep-like program.
 It is faster and has an attractive features than grep.
 ag.el is simple ag frontend for Emacs, loosely based on ack-and-half.el.

and its home page is

Homepage: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el

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:

Wilfred commented 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! :)