use ack (or another search utility) instead of grep about dumb-jump HOT 4 CLOSED

Thanks. I do plan on adding support for other search programs and I am aware of the alternatives. The reason I did not support a better searcher initially is because they are not installed on most systems by default and this is a barrier to "just working".

Right now my plan is to add support for ag because it seems like it's the fastest one that is in all the common package managers, but please correct if I am wrong. Then by default it would use ag if it was available and fallback to grep only if it had to. With the future goal of allowing any searcher.

That said, totally open to other opinions (and PRs) on the best way to do this. I will keep this issue open until a faster searcher is being used by default. Thanks again for opening!

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Hi @kolewu

Yesterday I added support for the silver searcher (ag). Dumb Jump will now default to using ag if it's available and then fallback to using grep if it must. In my tests, it's way faster, particularly when jumping through emacs .el.gz source code. If you get a chance to try it, please let me know.

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Closing this for now since ag support is now in place. Feel free to re-open and/or comment if you have any feedback. Thanks!

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Thank you for this quick implementation. Now I'm waiting for a project where I can benefit from this package ;-)

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