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bug#50733: 28.0.1; project-find-regexp can block Emacs for a long time


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: bug#50733: 28.0.1; project-find-regexp can block Emacs for a long time
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:23:02 +0000


Of course it does. The most important requirement of any search tool (regexp or not) is that it must display results that correspond to the current version of the files. Even a daemon that watches the tree and calls mkid in the background when files in the tree have changed isn't enough, the results will regularly be wrong during N seconds (where N depends on the size of the tree, for example, on my laptop, 30 for a 1 GB tree).

And you always change your files in significant enough ways with such frequency? Then yes, IDUtils is probably not for you, too bad.


Again I'm not talking about myself. I only say that a search tool which displays wrong results (not even "Try again later") is not the right tool for most users. Nobody would understand that, for example, after a git pull, a git checkout, or a git apply, they have to wait "some time" before doing a search.





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