Re: occur slower than grep by a longshot

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com> writes:
> I dunno, maybe internally have the real grep to do the hard work, by
> default, but keep the original occur code around for in case the user
> does not have grep on their operating system?

Of course, ideally, occur and grep should be one and the same.
But the fact is that Emacs regexps are not the same as grep's regexps,
so it's really not that easy to replace one with the other.


        Stefan