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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:28:57 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > > So running a pipe of find and grep is complex, but launching an editor
> > > for the same task is not?  Interesting logic...
> > 
> > I think you are joking. Don't you work inside an editor when you write 
> > programs, compile, etc? I think you develope from inside of EMACS, and no from 
> > the bash prompt ... or not?
> 
> I do both.
> It's really a matter of philosophy, but I think that editors should not 
> invent new ways of doing things for which there already are tools to do 
> them.  So it is better to make an interface from the editor to run `grep' 
> as an external program than to invent a command which will emulate 
> `grep'.  
I agree with you, for that reason I did a "grep shell", that's a friendly 
interface to call grep. Additionally it adds the recursion. I call grep because 
in this way enhancements in the Reg. Exp. of grep will be used by the editor.

> For example, Emacs has a command that runs `grep', then 
> displays its output in a variety of ways (with color highlighting of 
> hits, in a directory-like format, etc.).  Reinventing the wheel is IMHO a 
> waste of effort; it's better to build on work by others than to do it all 
> from scratch.  That's my opinion.
I think the same, but remmember that I can even replace grep because currently 
libc have regular expression routines and I'm using that internally. But as I 
think that is better to call grep, I call grep.

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