Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously

[Edward O'Connor]

>>> % g             dired-mark-files-containing-regexp
>>> where `g' seems to mean `grep'.
>> Indeed. I use this binding several times a day! :)
> But isn't it too slow?  I'd prefer the real `grep' doing the same job.

Well, 90% of the time, I follow it up with Q,
`dired-do-query-replace-regexp'. So the benefit of '% g' is that it
marks the matching files for subsequent dired commands.


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Ted