Re: master 544db1e: Faster grep pattern for identifiers

[Omar Polo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: mattiase@acm.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 21:06:09 +0300
>> 
>> On 15.09.2021 19:33, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > And what about the "alternative Grep's"?
>> 
>> The author of the commit uses one such Grep.
>> 
>> I also tested with ripgrep, to similar success.
>
> So they all have, miraculously, the same notion of what is a word,
> regardless of the programming language and the script/character set?
> Amazing.

It seems to be available on OpenBSD' grep

> -w      The expression is searched for as a word (as if surrounded by
>         ‘[[:<:]]’ and ‘[[:>:]]’; see re_format(7)).

it also seems to be available on NetBSD and FreeBSD judging from the
manpages.

don't know about other grep implementations and honestly haven't tested
the code (yet).


Cheers,