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Easystroke vs The Silver Searcher

A side-by-side look at Easystroke and The Silver Searcher. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Easystroke

Easystroke

Os & Utilities

Easystroke is an open-source mouse gesture recognition application for Linux. It allows users to assign mouse gestures to actions, like opening applications or triggering keyboard shortcuts. Easystroke runs in the background and detects gestures made with the mouse such as lines, circles, and clicks.

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The Silver Searcher

The Silver Searcher

Development

The Silver Searcher, also known as ag, is a code searching tool designed to be a faster alternative to grep. It ignores file patterns from ignored files and git history for faster searching.

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