bug#54608: 29.0.50; xref-search-program-alist: support ugrep

[Manuel Uberti via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

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Hi,

I attached a small patch to extend xref-search-program-alist and
xref-xref-search-program with support for ugrep[1].

Is it something that can be of any interest?

[1] https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep


In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 
1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars)
  of 2022-03-28 built on hathaway
Repository revision: 0e7314f6f15a20cb2ae712c09bb201f571823a6f
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Manuel Uberti
www.manueluberti.eu

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From ff949f7c65913697bfc9f284b86c6e55479e9730 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti@inventati.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:26:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Support ugrep in xref-search-program-alist

* lisp/progmodes/xref.el
xref-search-program-alist (Add ugrep)
xref-search-program (Add ugrep)
---
 lisp/progmodes/xref.el | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/xref.el b/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
index 5d1ba4eaf5..870dad61a4 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
@@ -1715,7 +1715,8 @@ xref-search-program-alist
      .
      ;; '!*/' is there to filter out dirs (e.g. submodules).
      "xargs -0 rg <C> --null -nH --no-heading --no-messages -g '!*/' -e <R>"
-     ))
+     )
+    (ugrep . "xargs -0 ugrep <C> --null -ns -e <R>"))
   "Associative list mapping program identifiers to command templates.
 
 Program identifier should be a symbol, named after the search program.
@@ -1744,6 +1745,7 @@ xref-search-program
   :type '(choice
           (const :tag "Use Grep" grep)
           (const :tag "Use ripgrep" ripgrep)
+          (const :tag "Use ugrep" grep)
           (symbol :tag "User defined"))
   :version "28.1"
   :package-version '(xref . "1.0.4"))
-- 
2.25.1