From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should project delegate project-find-regexp?
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:56:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lewghlwo.fsf@athena.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bkxdf71q.fsf@gmail.com>
Hello,
On Thu 07 Apr 2022 at 09:48pm +10, Joel Reicher wrote:
> It seems to me that, at least in the case of git, 'git grep' offers a superior implementation to anything offered by the generic implementation of project-find-regexp.
>
> At the moment project delegates the list of files to vc (for example) but perhaps it should delegate the regexp search itself?
Interesting. One thing that comes to mind is that git-grep(1) is
line-based, i.e., it can't do multiline regexps. Though, I am not sure
that project-find-regexp can either.
--
Sean Whitton
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-07 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-07 11:48 Should project delegate project-find-regexp? Joel Reicher
2022-04-07 12:34 ` Ergus
2022-04-07 12:55 ` Joel Reicher
2022-04-07 14:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-07 16:10 ` Ergus
2022-04-07 16:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-08 8:40 ` Joel Reicher
2022-04-18 3:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-09 23:01 ` Jim Porter
2022-04-18 3:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-07 16:56 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
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