Niko, good question. You have your answer already but i’ll add installation
advice in the readme or an install guide. Should be trivial anywhere Go is,
“go get path && go install gg”

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:23 AM 'Niko Schwarz' via golang-nuts <
golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> What's your recommended strategy for installing it on linux? I guess it'll
> take a few years before distributions have easy-to-install packages just
> listed in their indices.
>
> On Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 6:11:47 PM UTC+2, Michael Jones wrote:
>>
>> Recently I shared my Survey <https://github.com/MichaelTJones/survey>
>> program, saying that it was a sidestep from what I was working on but
>> interesting and hopefully useful to others. Here is the real thing, named
>> gg, that Survey was a test for. GG combines lexical analysis and Go-native
>> pattern matching to extend grep(1) for Go developers
>>
>> GG is smart; the search is restricted, seeking matches only in chosen
>> token classes.  A search in number literals can match values in addition to
>> patterns: "v 255" matches the numeric value 255 in source code as
>> 0b1111_1111, 0377, 0o377, 255, 0xff, etc.  Go's linear-time regular
>> expression engine is Unicode-aware and supports many extensions: numbers in
>> identifiers are found with "gg i [0-9]" or "gg i [\d]", find comments with
>> math symbols using "gg c \p{Sm}", and Greek in strings via "gg s \p{Greek}".
>>
>> GG is fast, uses all cores, understands filesystem hierarchies, archives,
>> and compression schemes, and is general like grep while focused in a new
>> way: find within package names, identifiers, types, strings, comments, and
>> more.
>>
>> Source code:
>> https://github.com/MichaelTJones/gg
>>
>> Man page (all is explained here):
>> https://github.com/MichaelTJones/gg/blob/master/gg.pdf
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> Search the Go 1.13 source code for strings containing Megalosaurus, but
>> not comments:
>>
>> $ gg -r s Megalosaurus ~/go
>> /Users/mtj/go/src/cmd/link/link_test.go:`text:"London. Michaelmas term
>> lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall.
>> Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters
>> had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be
>> wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an
>> elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. ...
>>
>>
>> Search the Go 1.13 source code for identifiers with greek letters (but
>> not strings or comments):
>>
>> $ gg -r i '\p{Greek}' ~/go
>> /Users/mtj/go/src/encoding/json/encode_test.go: A0, À, Aβ int
>> /Users/mtj/go/src/math/cmplx/polar.go:func Polar(x complex128) (r, θ
>> float64) {
>> /Users/mtj/go/src/math/cmplx/rect.go:func Rect(r, θ float64) complex128 {
>> /Users/mtj/go/src/math/cmplx/rect.go: s, c := math.Sincos(θ)
>> /Users/mtj/go/src/math/rand/rand_test.go: var χ2 float64
>> :
>>
>>
>> Best to all,
>> Michael
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Michael T. jonesmichae...@gmail.com*
>>
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