From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:02:49 +0200 Message-ID: <83ocbeqfx2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y6aiqtbq.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285934587 10639 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 12:03:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 14:03:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1eKO-0007Y2-LP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:03:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57773 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1eKO-0007Ls-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39569 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1eKG-0007KH-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:02:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1eKF-0003uY-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:02:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:61280) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1eKE-0003uQ-Uq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:02:55 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L9M000000F01D00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:02:47 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.77.74]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L9M00LY01GKYBI0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:02:46 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131151 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:28:49 +0200 > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > What's wrong with "M-x occur" and/or "M-x multi-occur"? > > They does not do what grep does. Like what? > And as I said opening the files in a buffer will be bad because of performance. What do you think Grep does? Doesn't it open the files and read them? > However using the internal regexp engine for searching the files would > be useful, but I have no idea how complicated it is to implement > something like that. Emacs does similar things in quite a few places already.