Unity Ripgrep Search Tool

Helper class for making your own search tools along with a built-in transient Ripgrep search window.

Features

• uses the fantastic ripgrep to search your Unity code, assets, prefabs and scene files
• handy search window with multithreaded dispatch and parsing of ripgrep search results
• advanced Unity users (those who know scene/asset/prefab file internals and basic regex) can find pretty much anything fast
• find references to anything by just searching the GUID
• save commonly used searches
• optionally add any paths you want searched for code/files that live outside of the Unity world

Requirements

• install ripgrep (make sure it's on your path for Windows and available from /usr/local/bin/rg for macOS)
• Unity LTS release (not tested on anything that isn't an LTS because I'm not insane enough to use one)

Usage

• cmd/ctrl + G opens the search window
• type at least 3 letters and press enter
• escape stops the search if it is active or closes the search window if it is complete
• results will ping on click and open to the search result line in TextMate on double-click (if on macOS with TextMate installed)

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