This feature causes nothing but problems and is frequently broken. The
only optimization it was enabling were SIMD optimizations for
transcoding. In particular, for UTF-16 transcoding. This is performed by
the [`encoding_rs`](https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs) crate,
which specifically uses unstable portable SIMD APIs instead of the
stable non-portable SIMD APIs.
SIMD optimizations that apply to search have long been making use of
stable APIs, and are automatically enabled when your target supports
them. This is, IMO, the correct user experience and one that
`encoding_rs` refuses to support. I'm done dealing with it, so
transcoding will only use scalar code until the SIMD optimizations in
`encoding_rs` work on stable. (This doesn't mean that `encoding_rs` has
to change. This could also be fixed by stabilizing `std::simd`.)
Fixes#2748
This does a variety of polishing.
1. Deprecate the tty methods in favor of std's IsTerminal trait.
2. Trim down un-needed dependencies.
3. Use bstr to implement escaping.
4. Various aesthetic polishing.
I'm doing this as prep work before adding more to this crate. And as
part of a general effort toward reducing ripgrep's dependencies.
This crate is only a shim over a bunch of other crates. I'm not sure
that there's anything to add to each of the `pub extern` items. So
instead of just writing fluff, I removed the lint.
Fixes#2516
