Re: emacs 22.3.1 igrep issue

[Richard Riley]

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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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 ;)