grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression.

rc/tools/grep.kak is a small wrapper around it.

When you use the kakoune'sgrep command, it populates a special*grep* buffer, listing all found occurrences.You can then usegrep-next-match orgrep-previous-match to navigate between them.

By default, kakoune will rungrep -RHn in the background:

• -R,--dereference-recursive Read all files under each directory, recursively. Follow all symbolic links
• -H,--with-filename Print the file name for each match.
• -n,--line-number Prefix each line of output with the 1-based line number within its input file

You can customize this value by setting thegrepcmd option.For instance, you may want to to rely on a similar tool to do the job, such asAg (The Silver Searcher),Ack orripgrep:

set-option global grepcmd 'rg --column'

See alsohttps://github.com/occivink/kakoune-find