insomniacslk/codesearch

Code searching tool with multiple backends

codesearch

Command line code search tool that uses different backends, like GitHub, GitLab, and local search via google/codesearch.

Configuration

Create a file called config.yml in your configdir:

• on Linux, ~/.config/cs/config.yml
• on macOS, ~/Library/Application Support/cs/config.yml

Use the output of cs config-example to populate a sample config. Alternatively see the fileconfig.yml.example.

Features

Feature matrix:

	GitHub	GitLab	Csearch
Basic search	✅	✅	✅
Regexp search	❌	❌	✅
Colorized output	✅	✅	✅
Highlight search pattern	✅	✅	✅
Limit to N results	✅	✅	✅
Sorting	✅	✅	✅
Rate limiting	✅	❌	N/A
Response caching	❌	❌	N/A
Case sensitivity	❌	❌	✅
Show context lines	✅	max 3	✅
Full file fetching	✅	❌	✅
Search by file name	✅	✅	✅
Search in file names	❌	✅	✅

Other general features:

• Common syntax for all backends
• Server-side search
• Custom colour scheme

NOTE: there is no common syntax for searching, so for advanced queries you must know each search engine's syntax and capabilities

Backends

Currently GitHub, GitLab and local search via google/codesearch are supported. BitBucket support might be implemented in the future.

Note that for local search to work you must create (and keep up to date) a local index using cindex.