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Re: cgrep for basesystem?



On 10.06.2020 12:34, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 05.06.2020 01:44, Simon Burge wrote:
>> Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>
>>> I find this program useful, however it should be refreshed or rewritten
>>> for modern times. Its switches and usage is not compatible with modern
>>> grep(1) and the implementation is pretty simplistic.
>>>
>>> If someone would be interested to pick this project it would be great.
>>> Personally, due to lack of extra time in the foreseeable time, I use
>>> this program locally and I don't find it suitable in the current form
>>> for base.
>>
>> Why base and not pkgsrc?  FWIW, there's already a (I assume different)
>> cgrep in pkgsrc in the textproc/hs-cgrep pkg src.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon.
>>
> 
> We have got vi that has a concept of c and lisp indexing using ctags.
> Getting cgrep seems not much more advanced.
> 
> It was already in the base of Coherent.
> 

I forgot to mention that we already have 3 grep implementations in base
and install 8 grep programs into /usr/bin.

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