Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?

[Mathias Dahl]

I often use `% g' in Dired for finding files with a certain text in
them. Together with recursive Dired listings this often solves my
needs (although it is slower than using grep.)

/Mathias

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:29:35 +0200
>>> Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> > How do we handle what? If you mean, how can Emacs read the text just
>>> > fine... Emacs has supported UTF-16 and many other coding systems for
>>> > years.
>>>
>>> Using grep is an integral part of Emacs. If grep does not support the
>>> coding then that part of Emacs will fail.
>>
>> What's wrong with "M-x occur" and/or "M-x multi-occur"?
>
> They does not do what grep does.
>
> And as I said opening the files in a buffer will be bad because of 
> performance.
>
> However using the internal regexp engine for searching the files would
> be useful, but I have no idea how complicated it is to implement
> something like that.
>
>