Re: [bug-idutils] id utils integration with grep

[Jim Meyering]

Edward Peschko wrote:
> When going through the id utils 'past and future'
> section, I noticed the following items:
>
> Future releases of idutils might include:
>
>    - an optional coupling with GNU grep, so that grep
>      can use an ID database for hints
>
>    - a cscope work-alike query interface
>
>    - incremental update of the ID database.
>
> Now, I love grep's interface, but on large datasets it is
> agonizingly slow, since it redoes all the work of
> matching every single time the underlying files are read.
>
> Has there been any work/talk with the grep team
> towards providing the optional coupling talked about
> in #1, or have these efforts/ideas been abandoned?

As far as I know, no one is working on this.