Re: feature addition idea: Info-occur

[Colin Walters]

reader@newsguy.com (Harry Putnam) writes:

> >   M-x grep RET cd INFODIR; grep -n -e 'STRING' * RET
> > 
> > where INFODIR is the directory where you keep your Info files
> > (typically /usr/local/info).
> 
> That doesn't work for me.  Info files are kept gzipped so another
> step would be required in there.  Also any directorires inside info
> would probably break it .... like gnus.
> 
> The method I showed doesn't care about gzip or other directories.

My system has a "zgrep" program which is the same as "grep", except it
automagically groks gzipped files.  Still though, it would be nice if
there was something that didn't require calling "grep".