Subject: [bug#39384] [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-rg.

From: "LaFreniere\, Joseph" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 21:08:11 -0600

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> writes:
> We want to have ripgrep as a regular input, so at the point in 
> the code
> where it searches through PATH for the rg binary we patch it to 
> refer to
> the specific binary. One example of this is in (gnu packages 
> emacs-xyz),
> with emacs-nov-el.

Ah, I see what you mean now.  But wouldn't hard-coding the path to 
ripgrep in that way prevent the package from being able to use 
remote systems' ripgrep binaries when running over TRAMP?

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Joseph LaFreniere