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. Ross NextBus 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
