idutils support

[Edward Peschko]

All,

When going through the id utils 'past and future' section, I noticed
the following items:

Future releases of idutils might include:

    - an optional coupling with GNU grep, so that grep can use an ID
database for hints

    - a cscope work-alike query interface

    - incremental update of the ID database.

Now, I love grep's interface, but on large datasets it is agonizingly slow,
since it redoes all the work of matching every single time the
underlying files are read.

Has there been any work/talk with the idutils team towards providing
the optional
coupling talked about in #1, or is the grep team satisfied with the
boundaries of
where it exists as a project?

Ed