Re: A Modest Proposal

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05/01/2016 06:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > My modest proposal is kinda suggesting that `insert-directory' would go
> > away -- to be replaced by (something like) `ls-lisp--insert-directory'.
>
> Users of Posix platforms will curse you if you do.

Yes. Listing files using external tools is usually faster.

After digging into grep.el and using it a bit, I've been hoping we could 
construct a high-level pluggable API inside it, so that instead of 
customizing grep-program, etc, it would be possible to use third-party 
alternatives (such as Ag) to list files, and to search through files, 
from the core packages.

Using ls-files instead of find could work like one such alternative 
(used by default as fallback).