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Re: find files fast with breadth-first search
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Re: find files fast with breadth-first search |
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Thu, 02 Jun 2016 15:22:17 -0000 |
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:41:51 -0700, dave wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 27, 1999 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, David Bakhash wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a useful little package for finding files (usually a particular
>> file) somewhere in a big mess of directories.
>
> Hi David,
>
> findr is my savior! Only problem: it doesn't go through
> query-replace-compile-replacement, which means it doesn't support lisp
> expressions in replacement strings (e.g. `\,(if \1 "x" "y")'. Any
> chance of a bug fix?
breadth-first would mean the whole sub-dir would be searched before
do the next sub-dir? Isn't that the default?
Why/how-else could it be done?
Does it search on:
FileName, last-changed N hours/days ago, contains TextStrings:1,2,3
??