I've added a neat little feature to deadgrep: when you navigate to a line, the matched part of the line is highlighted! See the bottom half of my screenshot.
This was inspired by the excellent roadmap in helm-rg!
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I've been compilation buffers in Emacs recently and I really appreciate the error and warning counts shown in the modeline.
I've added the equivalent feature to deadgrep: it shows result counts! Really useful when you're doing big refactorings.
I've finally added an incremental search option to deadgrep! https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v012
I also learnt that incremental tools don't do anything clever with the minibuffer: they just call read-char in a loop.
I've added some new keybindings to deadgrep.el, so I split the shortcut tables into two categories: https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep#keybindings
I've done this purely by intuition. Are there good rules or heuristics for deciding when more hierarchy is needed in information, I wonder?