On Mon Mar 8 18:30:34 EST 2010, st...@quintile.net wrote: > > why would we go for "slower than grep"? wouldn't it be simpler > > put a new queryish interface on grep á la 9fans.net/archive? > > what am i missing? > > It allows a subtly different set of query tools which make > sense to less regexp savvy people I work with, and it prints > results with contex which our grep doesn't (yet? :-).
it could easily be done with pre and post processing. no? say a pass through tokenize and a little text frobbing. or is there some real special sauce? - erik
