v0.7.0
This release contains a small performance improvement and implements several feature requests/issues:
- #46 (Implement option --word-regexp/-w to match on word boundaries only)
- #49 (Improve handling of line length errors)
- #51 (Fix handling of custom output separator for multiline matches)
- #53 (Implement option --only-matching)
- #47 (Implement option --targets to list selected files)
The last one enables fast file listing based on sifts filtering capabilities without actually searching the files. As @Rican7 mentioned in the issue, this allows e.g. to use sift as driver for CtrlP (a vim plugin).
The result is much more powerful than just implementing the option -g known from ack/the silver searcher - you can now use sift to list files and combine all filtering options, not just filter the path based on a regular expression.
An example based on the linux kernel source code (version 3.18.2):
sift --targets --git --path net -x c --files '*test*' --exclude-dirs wireless
This lists all files that:
- contain "net" in the path ("net" is used as a regular expression here, like in the mentioned
-goption) - are c code files (extension *.c)
- contain "test" in the filename
And while searching, sift will
- respect .gitignore files
- not descend into directories named "wireless"
While your average use case should be much less complex, this shows the flexibility of the solution.
You can download the new binaries here: https://sift-tool.org/download