igrep - Interactive Grep

Runs grep (ripgrep's library) in the background, allows interactively pick its results and open selected match in text editor of choice (vim by default).

Usage

ig [OPTIONS] <PATTERN|--type-list> [PATH]

Args

<PATTERN>    Regular expression used for searching.
<PATH>       File or directory to search. Directories are searched recursively.
             If not specified, searching starts from current directory.

Options

    --editor <EDITOR>         Text editor used to open selected match. [default: vim]
                              [possible values: vim, neovim, nano]
-g, --glob <GLOB>             Include files and directories for searching that match the given glob.
                              Multiple globs may be provided.
-h, --help                    Print help information
-i, --ignore-case             Searches case insensitively.
-S, --smart-case              Searches case insensitively if the pattern is all lowercase.
                              Search case sensitively otherwise.
-t, --type <TYPE_MATCHING>    Only search files matching TYPE.
                              Multiple types may be provided.
-T, --type-not <TYPE_NOT>     Do not search files matching TYPE-NOT.
                              Multiple types-not may be provided.
    --type-list               Show all supported file types and their corresponding globs.
-V, --version                 Print version information.

Keybindings

Key	Action
q, Esc	Quit
Down, j	Select next match
Up,k	Select previous match
Right, l, PageDown	Select match in next file
Left, h, PageUp	Select match in previous file
gg, Home	Jump to the first match
Shift-g, End	Jump to the last match
Enter	Open current file
dd, Delete	Filter out selected match
dw	Filter out all matches in current file
F5	Re-run search

Installation

igrep binaries can be download from GitHub (for Linux and MacOS). One can also build and install it from source using Rust toolchain by running: cargo install igrep.