From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Berdine Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: igrep on remote files with tramp? (~Solved) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 01:01:07 -0400 Organization: University of Rochester Message-ID: <0001HW.BF1324D30245A568F0305550@news.ispnetbilling.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122877323 25640 80.91.229.2 (1 Aug 2005 06:22:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 06:22:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 01 08:21:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzTg5-0007A6-R0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:21:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzTih-0000MP-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 02:24:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!news.sisna.com!not-for-mail User-Agent: Hogwasher/4.2.2 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.67.224.178 Original-X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@ikano.com Original-X-Trace: news.sisna.com 1122872468 66.67.224.178 (Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:01:08 MDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:01:08 MDT X-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:01:08 MDT (news.sisna.com) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132803 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28327 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28327 In case it helps anyone else, I've found an acceptable solution to this problem through color-moccur.el (http://www.bookshelf.jp/elc/color-moccur.el). For cases where there are likely to be several searches, it seems the fastest method is to first load all the files one wishes to search (C-u dired-do-find-marked-files in my case) and then run moccur. For a one-off search, or for local searches where read-times aren't so prohibitive, dired-do-moccur works nicely. Other than the necessity of loading all the files, this actually seems preferable to an igrep solution, and short of running the search remotely, some such delay or memory hit is inevitable. Thanks for the input, and hopefully this is useful for someone else. -Dan