Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] GREP in a GUI

>>>>> "ed" == ed  <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >> http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/18/1617228&from=rss

    ed> take one of the most integral parts of the command line and
    ed> put it in a gui, that's just damn awful.

Emacs has been doing that for decades.


    ed> grep is pretty much useless outside the command line, 

No.  It's very useful from Emacs's frontend.

    ed> it becomes more of a 'find string in file' program rather than
    ed> 'find regexp in stdin'.

You want to grep <stdin>?  Don't you know file redirection?


    ed> find and grep work well together. 

Yeah.  I often use them together.   And that can be done within Emacs,
too.


-- 
Lee Sau Dan                     李守敦                          ~{@nJX6X~}

E-mail: danlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index