From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes to emacs/lisp/progmodes/grep.el Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:10:50 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5567-Tue29Jun2004071049+0300-eliz@gnu.org> References: <87isdgnzzi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <20040625220304.0f1fd05a@pfdabpc.inhouse.start.de> <20040627123340.5d3354cd@pfdabpc.inhouse.start.de> <20040628104013.5b4eb37e@pfdabpc.inhouse.start.de> <7494-Mon28Jun2004200058+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <20040628232216.5be7f8dd@pfdabpc.inhouse.start.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088482553 11685 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 04:15:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 06:15:48 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfA28-0000PZ-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:15:48 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfA27-0002Fk-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:15:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfA3l-00065O-TA for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BfA3e-00065J-U7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BfA3e-000657-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfA3e-000654-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.23] (helo=aragorn.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BfA1g-0001NQ-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-209-77.inter.net.il [80.230.209.77]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.6-GR) with ESMTP id DLS90639; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:15:08 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Daniel Pfeiffer X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <20040628232216.5be7f8dd@pfdabpc.inhouse.start.de> (dapfy@t-online.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25304 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25304 > Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:22:16 +0200 > From: dapfy@t-online.de (Daniel Pfeiffer) > > > > When I need that, I use ID-Utils (and the small Emacs package that > > comes with it), not Grep. Isn't "M-x gid" from that package what you > > want? > > Sounds interesting. But it also sound kinda big, like Glimpse it requires > indexing, which is certainly efficient (unless the indexed stuff changes > frequently). There's no need to reindex too frequently, unless you make major changes to one or more of the project's files. > And I frequently grep in various corners of various machines, on > all of which I'd have to install this, which is already my turn off with GNU > grep... At first sight my little script gives me more bang for the euro. Doesn't your script need Perl to be installed? Perl is by far a larger package than ID-Utils. While ID-Utils is a bit larger than Grep, it's not much larger; its lightning-fast response to queries and programming language awareness more than make up for the need to install a fairly small package.