Re: [Flightgear-devel] question about fg joystick support -- whereis it?/grep question
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. I do this particular operation so much that I have a little 2-liner cgrep script that looks for a string in all the C/C++ source files under a directory. I can type cgrep joy before you get past the Edit menu in any IDE. :) Smileys all around. I don't point this stuff out to start a flame war. It's just that I find that most GUI folks have a very hard time internalizing the fact that Unix folks might really prefer a command line for many tasks, and I like to cite evidence when the opportunity presents itself. (And after all that, I'm sure that someone will point out that emacs has a multi-file grep feature too. I'm just not aware of one.) Andy -- Andrew J. RossNextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one. - Sting (misquoted) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] question about fg joystick support -- whereis it?/grep question
Andy Ross writes: 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. Nah. I like running find, grep, and etags from inside Emacs, then stepping through the results. (And after all that, I'm sure that someone will point out that emacs has a multi-file grep feature too. I'm just not aware of one.) M-x grep M-x grep-find Or, if you've already run etags, M-x tags-search All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
RE: [Flightgear-devel] question about fg joystick support -- whereis it?/grep question
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 09:06, Norman Vine wrote: ima sudonim writes: Incidentally, how does one find within files using grep? If i'm in /src and want to search all components of /src (including recursively directories) I tried: find . | grep -i joy but that finds just files with joy in their names in the directory tree Is there another tool I should be using? 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. Do you like living dangerously? ;-) ;-) Cheers Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
