Faster Grepping in Vim

We often search our projects for specific text within Vim like so: However, we have a need for speed. How can we grep faster? Override to use The Silver Searcher grep is a built-in command of Vim. By default, it will use our system’s grep command. We can overwrite it to use The Silver Searcher’s ag command instead by putting this in our ~/.vimrc: " The Silver Searcher if executable('ag') " Use ag

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the_silver_searcher, ag