From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: searching elisp on debian/ubuntu Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <98005ca5-ed0a-49a3-b41b-2a615d7d2ef7@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382720111 32057 80.91.229.3 (25 Oct 2013 16:55:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:55:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 25 18:55:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZkfO-0001er-Er for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZkfO-0007kc-4j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:55:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.88.200 with SMTP id bi8mr1806654obb.43.1382720038413; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:53:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.73.99 with SMTP id k3mr77870igv.9.1382720038127; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i2no33888363qav.0!news-out.google.com!z6ni91529pbu.0!nntp.google.com!o2no26329940qas.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.4.107; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.4.107 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:53:58 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201948 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94216 Archived-At: On Friday, October 25, 2013 9:25:54 PM UTC+5:30, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote: > > ... nuisance ... >=20 > > find /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp *.gz|xargs zgrep > > because zgrep unlike grep has no recursive flag > So I think that your lament about zgrep lacking --recursive and > needing to use find is not about a lack in zgrep but rather=85 I am not lamenting about zgrep not having grep's functionality I am lamenting that the debian packagers are trying to save my disk-space w= ithout my say-so