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Re: emacs 22.3.1 igrep issue
From: |
Richard Riley |
Subject: |
Re: emacs 22.3.1 igrep issue |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:37:39 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Kenneth Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com> writes:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote on 03/23/2010 05:49:54 PM:
>
>> > I have to get igrep working. I use it constantly.
>>
>> What does it do that lgrep and rgrep does not do?
>
> I don't know lgrep and rgrep. I installed igrep years ago. Are those
> better? Basically, I put the cursor over a word and hit a keystroke,
> it creates an *igrep* windows, searching for that word. Then I can I
> can use next-error to step through the matches.
>
This is the same as with lgrep and rgrep. You can then use the next
error functionality to move from hit to hit. Both built in and
supported.
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| next-error is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'.
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I wonder also why bother moving to emacs 22 when emacs 23 is released
and stable? It nothing else it has much better font handling ;)