msmolkin (u/msmolkin)

dang · 2 years ago

You should post this as a Show HN! But maybe wait a while (like a couple weeks or something) for the current thread to get flushed out of the hivemind cache.

If you do, email a link to hn@ycombinator.com and we'll put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.

msmolkin · 2 years ago

Wow, thanks so much for the encouragement and advice, dang! I'm honored to receive a personal response from you and so soon after posting. I really appreciate the suggestion to post this as a Show HN. If I end up doing it, I'll definitely wait a bit–thanks for that suggestion, as I would have thought to do the opposite otherwise. Nice of you to offer to put it in the second-chance pool as well.

skrebbel · 2 years ago

The second point here made me realize that it'd be super useful for a grep tool to have a "super case insensitive" mode which expands a search for, say, "FooBar|first_name" to something like /foo[-_]?bar|first[-_]?name/i, so that any camel/snake/pascal/kebab/etc case will match. In fact, I struggle to come up with situations where that wouldn't be a great default.

msmolkin · 2 years ago

Hey, I just created a new tool called Super Grep that does exactly what you described.

I implemented a format-agnostic search that can match patterns across various naming conventions like camelCase, snake_case, PascalCase, kebab-case. If needed, I'll integrate in space-separated words.

I've just published the tool to PyPI, so you can easily install it using pip (`pip install super-grep`), and then you just run it from the command line with `super-grep`. You can let me know if you think there's a smarter name for it.

Source: https://www.github.com/msmolkin/super-grep