tag

Tag is a wrapper CLI for ag, rg, find, and fd. It parses the output and creates shell aliases to open vim at the locations of the searches.

Examples

% rg foo
test/RgTests.hs
[1] 11:65:  (Command "rg" ["--heading", "--color", "always", "--column", "foo"])
[2] 12:16:  (rgCommand ["foo"])

test/AgTests.hs
[3] 11:53:  (Command "ag" ["--group", "--color", "--column", "foo"])
[4] 12:16:  (agCommand ["foo"])

% e1 # This opens test/RgTests.hs in vim at line 11 column 65

% fd yaml
[1] stack.yaml
[2] stack.yaml.lock

% e1 # This opens stack.yaml in vim

Installation

On macOS:

$ brew install keith/formulae/tag

Manually:

cmake -B build
cmake --build build
cmake --install build

Setup

Tag is meant to be a transparent wrapper around the underlying tools it calls, in order to make this work, you need to add a bit of configuration to your shell to auto-source the aliases after running a search. Here's some example configurations for common shells.

• bash - ~/.bashrc

if hash tag 2>/dev/null; then
  tag() {
    trap 'source /tmp/tag_aliases 2>/dev/null' SIGINT
    command tag "$@" && source /tmp/tag_aliases 2>/dev/null
    trap - SIGINT
  }
  alias ag="tag ag"
  alias fd="tag fd"
  alias find="tag find"
  alias rg="tag rg"
fi

• zsh - ~/.zshrc

if (( $+commands[tag] )); then
  tag() {
    trap 'source /tmp/tag_aliases 2>/dev/null' SIGINT
    command tag "$@" && source /tmp/tag_aliases 2>/dev/null
    trap - SIGINT
  }
  alias ag="tag ag"
  alias fd="tag fd"
  alias find="tag find"
  alias rg="tag rg"
fi

NOTE: With zsh tag also adds fN global aliases so you can use cat f1 to print the file containing the first match. It also adds dN aliases for the matching file's directory, such as cd d1.

• fish - ~/.config/fish/functions/tag.fish

function tag
  command tag $argv; and source /tmp/tag_aliases &> /dev/null
  alias ag "tag ag"
  alias fd "tag fd"
  alias find "tag find"
  alias rg "tag rg"
end

Configuration

You can customize the path tag writes the alias file to by passing --alias-file /custom/path before the tool.

Credits

This is inspired by this project, I wanted to expand on it.