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 rege
> 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 ou
On Mon Mar 8 16:35:12 EST 2010, st...@quintile.net wrote:
> perhaps of interest is seft [http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/~oldk/seft/]
> which works well for me. It is unusual in that it allows all the usual
> text searching tools (including AltaVista's long lamented () "near" operator,
> but does not use i
i wiill give it a try
you might also want to check out my (ape) port of glimpse
/n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/txt/glimpse-4.18.6.tbz
thanks,
++pac
