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authorThierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>2020-05-31 07:53:21 +0200
committerThierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>2020-05-31 08:19:05 +0200
commit6500dc4e6b433f90844e6008fd992c1d96a17548 (patch)
tree5e34d488fc3dc008a7b249703191016ed82b381b /helm-help.el
parent91f89aa37e6e1b35e46772b8e18cdadb2f312a44 (diff)
Update AG command docstring and help (#2313)
* helm-grep.el (helm-grep-ag-command): Do it. * helm-help.el (helm-grep-help-message): Do it.
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@@ -1317,11 +1317,15 @@ highlighted since there is no ~--color~-like option in GID itself.
** Tips
-Helm-AG is different from grep or ack-grep in that it works on a directory and
-not on a list of files.
+Helm-AG is different from grep or ack-grep in that it works on a
+directory recursively and not on a list of files. It is called
+helm-AG but it support several backend, namely AG, RG and PT.
+Nowaday the best backend is Ripgrep aka RG, it is the fastest and
+is actively maintained, see `helm-grep-ag-command' and
+`helm-grep-ag-pipe-cmd-switches' to configure it.
You can ignore files and directories with a \".agignore\" file, local to a
-directory or global when placed in the home directory. \(See the AG man page for
+directory or global when placed in the home directory. (See the AG man page for
more details.) That file follows the same syntax as `helm-grep-ignored-files'
and `helm-grep-ignored-directories'.
@@ -1330,7 +1334,8 @@ As always you can access Helm AG from `helm-find-files'.
Starting with version 0.30, AG accepts one or more TYPE arguments on its command
line. Helm provides completion on these TYPE arguments when available with your
AG version. Use a prefix argument when starting a Helm-AG session to enable this
-completion.
+completion. See RG and AG man pages on how to add new types.
+
Note: You can mark several types to match in the AG query. The first AG
versions providing this feature allowed only one type, so in this case only the