Was the file in a .gitignore by any chance? I've got my home folder in git to keep track of dot/config files and that always catches me out. Really dislike it defaulting to that ignoring files that are ignored by git.
You started using it because it had that capability I imagine, not because it is the default. You could easily just alias a command with the right flag if the capability was opt-in.
> You could easily just alias a command with the right flag if the capability was opt-in.
I tried a search to make grep ignore .gitignore because `--exclude=...` got tedious and there was ripgrep to answer my prayers.
Maintaining an alias would be more work than just `rg 'regex' .venv` (which is tab-completed after `.v`) the few times I'm looking for something in there. I like to keep my aliases clean and not have to use rg-all to turn off the setting I turned on. Like in your case, `alias rg='rg -u'`, now how do you turn it off?
> I tried a search to make grep ignore .gitignore because `--exclude=...` got tedious and there was ripgrep to answer my prayers.
To be clear, I was not suggesting an alias for grep, but for a hypothetical alternate ripgrep that searches everything by default but has a flag to skip ignored files. Something like
alias rgi='rg --skip-ignored'
or whatever. Or if it came with a short flag that could work too, so you could use it without an alias easily.
> Like in your case, `alias rg='rg -u'`, now how do you turn it off?
You don't use the same name, you make a new alias. Like rgi or something. Bonus point is you find out immediately if it's missing.
I use very short aliases with fallbacks to standard tools if ripgrep/fd/bat/... isn't installed. For my use searching files in `.gitignore` is useless 9/10 times, why would I want that to be default?
> Or if it came with a short flag that could work too
It does, `-.` for hidden and `-u` for hidden + ignored.
> Those are opt-out. The entire discussion is about opt-in.
Depends on your perspective, to me you have them flipped, and enabling them is "opt-in", i.e: "now I would like to see the hidden files please".
But I don't think I misunderstood you. You're telling me I should prefer hidden files to be the default, and I disagree and give my arguments. It's not more complicated than that.
To me rg only follows the same principle as the rest of my tools, fd requires `-H/--hidden`, ls `-a` or `-A` and so on. It is a big reason to why I prefer rg and fd over grep and find. Which brings us back to your first comment:
>> You started using it because it had that capability I imagine, not because it is the default.
