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bug#50733: 28.0.1; project-find-regexp can block Emacs for a long time


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#50733: 28.0.1; project-find-regexp can block Emacs for a long time
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:43:39 +0300
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0

On 24.09.2021 14:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
If someone wants to look for arbitrary strings,
they want "M-x grep" (with or without ripgrep), not
project-find-regexp.

That's not true, sorry. project-find-regexp is for (basically) grepping across the project, the way it has been configured by the user (with ignore entries and everything). We don't make any effort to limit to program source code files, for example, and we want to support arbitrary regexps.





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