From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: custom rgrep with multi dirs Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1956fb53-9dc8-48fc-8a83-4b1104165661@a32g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213436539 14800 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 09:42:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:42:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 14 11:43:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K7SHl-00047b-RG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:43:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7SGx-0002x2-VC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:42:11 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a32g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.226.234.243 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213435879 5037 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2008 09:31:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a32g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.226.234.243; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159462 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:54817 Archived-At: i'd like to write a custome rgrep command so that it greps several predefined dirs at once. for example, here's what i like the actualy command to run: find ~/dir1 ~/dir2 ~/dir3 -name "*html" -exec grep -i -nH -e myStr {} / dev/null \; all i want the my-rgrep to ask me is about the myStr. And of course i want the output in nice usual rgrep output with word highlighted and file linked. Any suggestion on how to do that? =2E.. for extra... where would i start to learn about how to get unix shell output into the format rgrep uses? i.e. hotlink file names and highlight words. Is there a general api/function or does it involve detailed programing of text properties etc myself? Thanks. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84