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25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 15:07:09 +0300

On 05/02/2015 02:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Did you try in src/ or did you try in lisp/?

Both. Grep is pretty fast on my machine (1.5 year old laptop, with Intel 
Core i7 and an SSD drive).

> gid is much faster in large directories, especially if they are
> accessed over NFS or some such.  So it scales better.

I'm sure it is, for large codebases. Just not sure if it has any 
tangible advantages for Emacs (and it has a disadvantage: has to be 
updated manually).

> If you forget, you will be reminded when you find no matches.

I might find 1-2 fewer matches than I should, instead of no matches.

And I'm actually aware of how it works. That won't be true for a random 
user.

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