Debuggex VS The Silver Searcher

Debuggex.com is a great tool for visualizing how a regex will execute character-by-character and testing it against a variety of inputs. Source: over 1 year ago

Combine that with Debuggex and you're a god at the game )). Source: about 2 years ago

My trick with understanding regexes, is not actually trying to understand them by looking at the text form. Instead copy paste them in a visualliser, like debuggex.com. This makes them sooo much easier to understand. Once you do that with this one (and also read the PR description), you'll realize it actually isn't that crazy complex. Source: over 2 years ago

Debuggex.com is also great, as you get a graphical preview of what the regex is actually doing. Source: over 2 years ago

If you have trouble finding it among the other stuff happening in the server log, well, so do I! I recommend learning how to programmatically search through your terminal output. Providing a universal method for this is challenging because various tools and terminal emulators implement this functionality differently. Another option would be to use tools like grep or the_silver_searcher (a favorite of mine) to... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

Some of the examples below use ag, but could just as well use grep or equivalent. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

Why guess when [there are installation instructions for various platforms on the README](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#installing)? Also, although it may not be easy to remember, is this really a problem in practice given the installation count in most contexts is one? If there's a context where it's installed regularly, that's... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

URL 🔗 : https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

My "vim" way of finding all the places where a function is being used: using visual mode, marking the function, and passing it to :Ag (silversearcher) The problem with this is that it is not 100% accurate, since it will just look for things with the same name, so I was thinking about using the LSP to make things more robust. Source: about 1 year ago