From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A read-based grep-like for symbols (el-search?) (was Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorthands have landed on master)) Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 01:04:13 +0200 Message-ID: <875yug8hzm.fsf@web.de> References: <25d8d72022b571db5291@heytings.org> <87h7e2xsl5.fsf@gmail.com> <25d8d72022e1ea7ed022@heytings.org> <87fstl7lzw.fsf@web.de> <87a6jt7ilx.fsf@web.de> <87fstlzlaq.fsf@gmail.com> <20211001070242.GC16352@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20111"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nog/hDBm2u0rhBYIyXFogtf3vNw= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 02 01:12:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mWRhY-000524-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 01:12:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45264 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWRhX-0006Vm-27 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:12:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40126) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWRZs-0005Bq-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:04:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWRZq-0001UO-I0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:04:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mWRZn-0005QU-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 01:04:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276024 Archived-At: writes: > Now the question: does it also find things hidden away in comments? [Did you ask me?] For expression based search this is actually not trivial: commented code might be messed with human language, or discontinued (code in between) or otherwise broken or incomplete. For el-search, there is some support for processing docstrings, and I plan to do something useful for comments too, but ATM comments are whitespace for el-search. OTOH, el-search supports expression-based query-replace, so it can automate some otherwise very time-consuming tasks... so, while it can be really useful, it is not /the/ one-and-only tool. Michael.