grep replacement

[Leonard H. Tower Jr.]

In article <6866 at elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> alan at cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer) writes:
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|One thing I would _love_ is to be able to find the context of what I've
|found, for example, to find the two (n?) surrounding lines.  I have wanted
|to do this many times and there is no good way.

GNU Emacs has a command that will walk you through each match of a
grep run and show you the context around it:

   grep:
   Run grep, with user-specified args, and collect output in a buffer.
   While grep runs asynchronously, you can use the C-x ` command
   to find the text that grep hits refer to.

M-x grep RET to invoke it.  I suspect other Unix Emacs have a similar
feature.

Information on how to obtain GNU Emacs, other GNU software, or the GNU
project itself is available from:

	gnu at prep.ai.mit.edu

enjoy -len