Re: IDE features: M-x find-grep

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard M Stallman wrote:
>     Yes, I use to say that they should be in the Edit menu every time we 
>     discuss this ... ;-)
>
>     Seriously, they are very useful and I see no reason not to put them 
>     there. And `occur' and `multi-occur' should be there too, of course.
>
> There are lots of commands that are "worth putting in the menu" if we
> judge by their usefulness.  But if we put them all in the menu it will
> be so big it is inconvenient to use.  So arguing that "this command is
> worth including" is not a good way to think about the question.

I can argue for it, but is it really necessary in this case? All four 
commands, occur, multi-occur, lgrep and rgrep are general commands for 
searching that are very useful. I think it is a good guess that users 
look for them in the menus where other search commands are. They do 
something very different from the other search commands that are there.

Is not that enough?

Juri suggested a bit restructuring of the menus. That seems good to me 
in a case like this. (If you want to do things fast you do not use the 
menus for this. The menus are more for finding things in this case.)