From: Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>
Subject: Re: Elisp: Search a File Without Visiting?
Date: 17 Jun 2003 08:02:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877k7ksq67.fsf@blarg.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: un0ghyirr.fsf@sandia.gov
>>>>> "Tad" == taashlo <taashlo@sandia.gov> writes:
Tad> My question: is it possible (using elisp) to search the
Tad> contents of the thesaurus file *without* loading it into a
Tad> buffer?
You could use, or duplicate the code of, the `grep' command. That
simply runs `grep' in a subprocesses and captures the output in a
buffer.
--
In the practice of computing, where we have so much latitude for
making a mess of it, mathematical elegance is not a dispensable
luxury, but a matter of life and death.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra: My Hopes of Computing Science (EWD 709)
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd07xx/EWD709.PDF
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-17 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-16 18:33 Elisp: Search a File Without Visiting? taashlo
2003-06-16 19:13 ` Sam Halliday
2003-06-16 19:48 ` taashlo
2003-06-16 19:13 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-16 19:47 ` taashlo
2003-06-16 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-17 17:04 ` taashlo
2003-06-17 18:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-18 0:44 ` Tad Ashlock
2003-06-17 15:02 ` Eric Hanchrow [this message]
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