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From: | Drew Adams |
Subject: | RE: `grep' command on MS Windows with Cygwin, looking for text with Unicode chars |
Date: | Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:37:35 -0700 (PDT) |
> Depending upon what you are wanting to do I might mention that emacs > dired can be very powerful here. > > I am often doing C-x d to start dired. Then using: > > C-x d RET ;; open directory dired > % g REGEXP <RET> ;; mark all files containing pattern > Q REGEXP <RET> TO <RET> ;; Perform query-replace-regexp on marked files > > If nothing else then % g is a native emacs way to search contents of > files and should handle unicode as well as for other tasks. Excellent reminder about that, Bob. That was the same reason I used Icicles search - let Emacs itself do the searching/matching. I still would like to be able to also use `M-x grep'.
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