Hi Emacs users, First of all, thanks to everyone who's helped to make EmacsW32 a very nice distribution.
I'm looking for a simple, interactive way to do four basic types of searches from within Emacs on Windows. Search: 1 - directory for file named "string" 2 - directory for file containing "string" 3 - file for lines containing "string" 4 - and replace all occurrences of "string" in files in directory >From the results buffer I would like to be able to press a keystroke and go directly to the file and in #2 and #3 go to the line. Showing file details in #1 would be nice. I think that find-dired will do #1, but I get a long list of file not found errors on what appear to be parameters. I think it is find-ls-option that I need to set but I don't know what to set it to. I notice that EmacsW32 comes with find and grep in C:\Program Files\Emacs\EmacsW32\gnuwin32\bin. Do I just need to add that directory to my path or do I also need to change some variables? I'm running Emacs 22.0.95.1. I also think find-grep-dired will do #2, but again I get a bunch of file not found errors on parameters. How can #3 be done without opening the file first? #4 can probably be done with dired, but it probably requires working find and grep like the above. If there's a better way than dired to do this I'd love to know. Additionally, has anyone been able to link search in Emacs into some cached local search engine like Windows search index? Thanks, Scott
