Subject: Re: bug#54608: 29.0.50; xref-search-program-alist: support ugrep

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:57:06 +0300

Hi!

On 28.03.2022 15:29, Manuel Uberti via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the 
Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> 
> I attached a small patch to extend xref-search-program-alist and
> xref-xref-search-program with support for ugrep[1].
> 
> Is it something that can be of any interest?

Sure.

Does ugrep show better performance in this use case than grep on your 
machine?