[bug#39384] [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-rg.

[Marius Bakke]

"LaFreniere\, Joseph" <address@hidden> writes:

> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
>> We want to have ripgrep as a regular input, so at the point in 
>> the code
>> where it searches through PATH for the rg binary we patch it to 
>> refer to
>> the specific binary. One example of this is in (gnu packages 
>> emacs-xyz),
>> with emacs-nov-el.
>
> Ah, I see what you mean now.  But wouldn't hard-coding the path to 
> ripgrep in that way prevent the package from being able to use 
> remote systems' ripgrep binaries when running over TRAMP?

Perhaps we could patch it to do both?  Use the store prefix if it
exists, and fall back to searching in PATH?

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