Andy Ross writes: > >Norman Vine wrote: >> Check your editor's help file for 'multi-file grep' or >'multi-file search' >> >> IMHO this is an indispensible editor feature for developing 'large' >> projects and most 'good' code editors have this feature builtin so >> you don't have to resort to using commandline tools directly. > >Blam. Culture crash. Most of us unix geeks would contend until the >day we die that doing a recursive search via a GUI interface is slower >and more error prone than running find and grep. The idea not "having >to resort" to command line tools is foreign -- they're better, not >worse. To us, a GUI app exists to do what command line tools cannot >(like editing visual stuff, or browsing big data sets), not to replace >functionality that works great already.
YIKES who ever mentioned a GUI App ?? Have you ever heard of a key assignment to run a shell script in emacs or vi ??? Or editors that can capture and massage a 'standard output' stream FWIW In my 'EMACS' all I need to do is Meta-Ctrl F-7 and it runs a recursive grep for the regexp that I enter in the conveniently 'prompted command line' Then all matched lines are returned in a 'buffer' that also includes the filename and line #. Oh did I mention that all I need to do is click on any line to open up that file at the occurence of my regex in a new buffer :-) starting-a-task-is-faster-then-forking-a-shell'ly your's Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
