In case it helps anyone else, I've found an acceptable solution to this problem through color-moccur.el (http://www.bookshelf.jp/elc/color-moccur.el).
For cases where there are likely to be several searches, it seems the fastest method is to first load all the files one wishes to search (C-u dired-do-find-marked-files in my case) and then run moccur. For a one-off search, or for local searches where read-times aren't so prohibitive, dired-do-moccur works nicely. Other than the necessity of loading all the files, this actually seems preferable to an igrep solution, and short of running the search remotely, some such delay or memory hit is inevitable. Thanks for the input, and hopefully this is useful for someone else. -Dan _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
