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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 22:32:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 27.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #92 received at 36644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 36644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#36644: Git log search
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 21:55:27 +0300

>> So I think we should treat this as we do in "M-x grep": leave the
>> semantics of PATTERN backend-dependent, and rely on the user to quote
>> some characters in it as needed.  Admittedly, 'grep' is lower-level
>> than 'vc-log-search', but at least we have a precedent.
>
> The difference is, 'M-x grep' doesn't use different backends. Although I'd
> be happy to see that capability.

grep backends can be switched implicitly by installing OS packages
like 'agrep', 'pcregrep', 'ripgrep', etc.
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 25 days ago.

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