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[PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-rg.

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: "LaFreniere\, Joseph" <joseph <at> lafreniere.xyz>, Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Cc: 39384 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: [bug#39384] [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-rg.
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 22:33:26 +0100

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"LaFreniere\, Joseph" <joseph <at> lafreniere.xyz> writes:

> Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> 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?

Perhaps we could patch it to do both?  Use the store prefix if it
exists, and fall back to searching in PATH?

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