The Platinum Searcher

A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

Features

It searches code about 3–5× faster than ack.
It searches code as fast as the_silver_searcher(ag).
It ignores file patterns from your .gitignore and .hgignore.
It searches UTF-8, EUC-JP and Shift_JIS files.
It provides binaries for multi platform (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux).

Benchmarks

ack go  6.24s user 1.06s system 99%  cpu 7.304 total # ack:
ag go   0.88s user 1.39s system 221% cpu 1.027 total # ag:  It's faster than ack
pt go   1.09s user 1.01s system 235% cpu 0.892 total # pt:  It's faster than ag!!

Installation

Developer

$ go get github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
$ go build -o $GOBIN/pt

User

Download from following urls.

Or, you can use Homebrew (Only MacOSX).

$ brew tap monochromegane/pt
$ brew install pt

Usage

$ # Recursively searchs for PATTERN in current directory.
$ pt PATTERN

$ # You can specified PATH and some OPTIONS.
$ pt OPTIONS PATTERN PATH

Editor Integration

Vim + Unite.vim

You can use pt with Unite.vim.

nnoremap <silent> ,g :<C-u>Unite grep:. -buffer-name=search-buffer<CR>
if executable('pt')
  let g:unite_source_grep_command = 'pt'
  let g:unite_source_grep_default_opts = '--nogroup --nocolor'
  let g:unite_source_grep_recursive_opt = ''
  let g:unite_source_grep_encoding = 'utf-8'
endif

Emacs + pt.el

You can use pt with pt.el, which can be installed from MELPA.

Code Status

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

About

A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

MIT License