Subject: bug#50733: 28.0.1; project-find-regexp can block Emacs for a long time

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:43:39 +0300

On 24.09.2021 14:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If someone wants to look for arbitrary strings,
> they want "M-x grep" (with or without ripgrep), not
> project-find-regexp.

That's not true, sorry. project-find-regexp is for (basically) grepping 
across the project, the way it has been configured by the user (with 
ignore entries and everything). We don't make any effort to limit to 
program source code files, for example, and we want to support arbitrary 
regexps.