Subject: bug#12492: Acknowledgement (24.2.50; Open vc-dir buffer easier and faster)

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 01:19:46 +0200

> project-find-regexp is both faster in most situations, works remotely, and
> provides a decent UI.

project-find-regexp is not asynchronous whereas vc-git-grep is.

UI of project-find-regexp is non-standard.  A more familiar UI
would be like in occur, for example, as used by noccur-project.

> BTW, I wonder how such project-isearch using multi-isearch-files would work
> in a non-toy project with a sufficiently-rare input.
>
> Even if we take the Emacs project itself, loading all 4000 files into
> Emacs's memory to search through them all is likely to take a lot of time.

No problem at all - trying on the Emacs project:

  (multi-isearch-files (project-files (project-current t)))

is like project-search, but with more convenient UI:
it's easier to type C-s to go to the next occurrence than
to invoke the command M-x fileloop-continue that has no keybinding.