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Re: feature addition idea: Info-occur
From: |
Colin Walters |
Subject: |
Re: feature addition idea: Info-occur |
Date: |
14 Apr 2001 16:49:57 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/21.0.102 |
reader@newsguy.com (Harry Putnam) writes:
> > M-x grep RET cd INFODIR; grep -n -e 'STRING' * RET
> >
> > where INFODIR is the directory where you keep your Info files
> > (typically /usr/local/info).
>
> That doesn't work for me. Info files are kept gzipped so another
> step would be required in there. Also any directorires inside info
> would probably break it .... like gnus.
>
> The method I showed doesn't care about gzip or other directories.
My system has a "zgrep" program which is the same as "grep", except it
automagically groks gzipped files. Still though, it would be nice if
there was something that didn't require calling "grep".
Re: feature addition idea: Info-occur, Dan Jacobson, 2001/04/20
Re: feature addition idea: Info-occur, Kai Großjohann, 2001/04/14