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Comment by clumsysmurf | Hacker News Reader

Anyone know of a tool like ack/ag which also lets me search for a term in proximity to another?" For example, find <foo> within 5 lines of <bar>"

You could do this with grep or ack or ag:

  grep bar -A 5 -B 5 files... | grep foo

-A n prints n lines following the match (bar) and -B n prints n lines before the match.

-C x does the same as both -A x and -B x together

(A - after, B - before, C - context)

I guess you could setup Sphinx to index your code :) "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!"