Name: ripgrep
Homepage: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
Why should this be included in the repository?
- Faster than Silver Searcher
- Can replace Silver Searcher and grep
- Can search specific file types
- Supports many encodings other than UTF-8 like UTF-16
Open Source: yes
How many users do you anticipate will use this software? Unknown. In theory many ack, silver search and grep user
Source: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/archive/0.6.0.tar.gz
If accepted i would be also up to package it