alt Hacker News> The binary name for `ripgrep` is `rg`.
I don’t understand when people typeset some name in verbatim, lowercase, but then have another name for the actual command. That’s confusing to me.
Programmers are too enarmored with lower-case names. Why not Ripgrep? Then I can surmise that there might not be some program ripgrep(1) (there might be a shorter version), since using capital letters is not traditional for CLI programs.
Look at Stacked Git:
https://stacked-git.github.io/
> Stacked Git, StGit for short, is an application for managing Git commits as a stack of patches.
> ... The `stg` command line tool ...
Now, I’ve been puzzled in the past when inputing `stgit` doesn’t work. But here they call it StGit for short and the actual command is typeset in verbatim (stg(1) would have also worked).
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Because we are constantly writing variables that are lowercase. Coming up with a name that is both short but immediately understandable is what we live for. Variables are our shrine, we stare at them everyday and are used to their beauty and simplicity.
It’s only 2 characters - if you use it all the time it becomes muscle memory.
You can simply add a shell alias with whatever name you like and move on.
Don't get me started on `nvim` to run neovim...
How would you capitalise it? RipGrep? RIPGrep? You’d need to pick a side and lose the pun. (And of course grep itself would need to be GReP if we took it all the way)