DRipGrepper

Yet another ripgrep GUI, written in Delphi Pascal with the goal to integrate in the Delphi IDE as an extension.

Features and Todos

Main Window

• search text, parse rg output
  • --vimgrep parser
  • error parser: if a line couldn't be parsed, then it is put in the first column
  • --pretty parser matching lines with colorized match position
  • --vimgrep --context NUM (or -A=NUM -B=NUM) parser
  • --invert-match parser
  • --stats parser eg. msgbox on end with search statistics
  • no match parser, if nothing found
• toolbar buttons to
  • expand / collapse tree
  • show/hide icons
  • full/relative path
  • alternate row colors
• copy rg command line into clipboard
• sorting by path
• sorting by row
• sorting by col
• sorting by tex
• grouping by path
• sorting groups by row / col / text
• file handling (eg. open in explorer, copy, rename, delete)
• replace text in files --replace=TEXT

🔍 Search Dialog

• help parametrizing rg in search dialog
  • filter help texts: can't be selected
  • expert mode set in DripGrepper.ini makes rg options visible
    • appropriate parameters will be filtered
  • quick buttons for
    • --ignore-case
    • --case-sensitive
    • --word-regexp
    • --fixed-strings
  • --glob settings as separate editbox

🚀 Open with...

• show configured editors to open matching file on matching position
  • on double click
  • with menu / toolbar
• separate editor for distinct extensions

Configure Open with...

Configuration

• configuration is stored in ini file (DripGrepper.ini for standalone and DripExtension*.ini for the extension)
  • search text history saved
  • search paths history saved
  • rg parameter history saved
  • view settings saved
    • ShowFileIcon
    • ShowRelativePath
    • AlternateRowColors
    • IndentLines
    • ExpandNodes
  • configurable length of history
  • Open with... settings saved
• configuration dialog

Delphi Extension #1

• dockable window
• high DPI Scaling
• menu item in Tools (shortcut configurable in DripExtension*.ini)
• Default shortcut Shift+Alt+R
• click on matching file, opens file in the editor on position
  • expand collapsed code in {$REGION}-s
• popup menu
• save window position
• search word on cursor
• search only in opened files/project files/project group
• delphi extension release

Misc

• screenshots in Readme.md
• scoop install
• chocolatey install

Installation

If you want to be up to date with the latest versions. Install Scoop, and then you can install and update dripgrepper from the official bucket 🆒

scoop bucket add dripgrepper-bucket https://github.com/mattia72/scoop
scoop install dripgrepper

Thanks

• ripgrep
• CnPack
• DDevExtensions
• dprocess: port from freepascal
• dzlib
• GExpert
• regexpr
• UniSynEdit
• VirtualTreeView