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Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:02:49 +0200

> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:28:49 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > What's wrong with "M-x occur" and/or "M-x multi-occur"?
> 
> They does not do what grep does.

Like what?

> And as I said opening the files in a buffer will be bad because of 
> performance.

What do you think Grep does?  Doesn't it open the files and read them?

> However using the internal regexp engine for searching the files would
> be useful, but I have no idea how complicated it is to implement
> something like that.

Emacs does similar things in quite a few places already.



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