Re: snav:History-->grep

["Khamis Abuelkomboz (UUNET)" <khamis@knuut.de>]

I join Subrata in the case, that storing the grep history
was very usefull, especially when you are having a large
project. One grep is usually enough to get back to results
at later time.  It's even the decide of the user to make
a new grep, when he believes that the grep was no longer
valid.
Another case how I used grep history is to look what I greped
before and if I made changes correct!

Mo, I Agree with you that storing grep history took a big place,
however I would limit storing history entries up to as example
100 entries.

khamis


Mo DeJong wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Subrata Datta wrote:
> 
> 
>> Thanks for the info. Removing grep cache is a little too far shot 
>> in my humble opinion. It would have been nice to have this feature
>> as option. 
>> 
>> regards,
>> SD
> 
> 
> Well, you are welcome to add it back in for your own version.
> There are some real problems with storing the entire output
> of grep in the project file, so be warned. Also, the code
> that managed the grep history and pushing and popping of the
> grep results is quite nasty. There is a hack in there that
> was meant to keep it working with 4.5 generated project
> files (it just ignored grep results in the history and
> automatically reran the grep). My question is, why
> do you need that feature?
> 
> Mo DeJong
> Red Hat Inc