grep replacement

[Stan Brown]

> 
> 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.
> 
> 	-- Alan		..!cit-vax!elroy!alan		* "But seriously, what
> 			elroy!alan at csvax.caltech.edu	   could go wrong?"


	Along this same general line it would be nice to be abble to
	look for paterns that span lines.  But perhaps this would be
	tom complete a change in the philosophy of grep ?

	stan


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