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filenamesearch: use `ripgrep-all` if available

Jin Liu requested to merge work/genericity/ripgrep-all into master

Original discussion: !336 (comment 1032743)

Use ripgrep-all or ripgrep as the default search backend for the filenamesearch KIO slave, when searching file content and in local dirs. Only fallback to our own implementation if they are not available.

The command line arguments are not hardcoded. Instead, filenamesearch calls kio-filenamesearch-grep that are installed in $BINDIR. This allows users to easily customize the search backend by having a script with the same name and higher precedence in $PATH. (E.g. Change "rga -j2" to higher thread number for SSDs. Change whether it respects ".gitignore" and ".ignore".)

Edited by Jin Liu

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