Subject: bug#49836: Support ripgrep in semantic-symref-tool-grep

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 02:53:10 +0300

On 18.09.2021 16:53, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> Attached is a straw-man patch that is not production-quality but illustrates some of the concepts I'd like to see:
> 
> * ripgrep supported for M-?
> * ripgrep auto-detected and used by default if available
> * treat ripgrep as a search method of its own and not just a different grep program
> * corollary: selection of search method should be made symbolically and not by supplying shell command strings

Perhaps we should split off the auto-detection feature and consider the 
patch without it first. If people don't mind adding yet another 
grep-or-ripgrep custom variable, this can be a reasonable change.

After landing that we could discuss the auto-detection approach, on 
local and remote machines, and whether we could manage to do it only 
once per host.