Re: Changes to emacs/lisp/progmodes/grep.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:22:16 +0200
> From: address@hidden (Daniel Pfeiffer)
> > 
> > When I need that, I use ID-Utils (and the small Emacs package that
> > comes with it), not Grep.  Isn't "M-x gid" from that package what you
> > want?
> 
> Sounds interesting.  But it also sound kinda big, like Glimpse it requires
> indexing, which is certainly efficient (unless the indexed stuff changes
> frequently).

There's no need to reindex too frequently, unless you make major
changes to one or more of the project's files.

> And I frequently grep in various corners of various machines, on
> all of which I'd have to install this, which is already my turn off with GNU
> grep...  At first sight my little script gives me more bang for the euro.

Doesn't your script need Perl to be installed?  Perl is by far a
larger package than ID-Utils.  While ID-Utils is a bit larger than
Grep, it's not much larger; its lightning-fast response to queries and
programming language awareness more than make up for the need to
install a fairly small package.