Re: Should project delegate project-find-regexp?

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Thu 07 Apr 2022 at 09:48pm +10, Joel Reicher wrote:

> It seems to me that, at least in the case of git, 'git grep' offers a 
> superior implementation to anything offered by the generic implementation of 
> project-find-regexp.
>
> At the moment project delegates the list of files to vc (for example) but 
> perhaps it should delegate the regexp search itself?

Interesting.  One thing that comes to mind is that git-grep(1) is
line-based, i.e., it can't do multiline regexps.  Though, I am not sure
that project-find-regexp can either.

-- 
Sean Whitton