Re: Glimpse and partial matching.

[Golda Velez <gvelez@iwhome.com>]

At 09:39 AM 6/7/00 -0400, Sam Tregar <sam@tregar.com> wrote:
>It's pretty lame to write a grep-replacement with a half-written regex
>component and then not document it.  Perhaps Glimpse should be modified to
>allow drop-in replacements for agrep (egrep, PCRE, etc).

Yeah, the problem is glimpse is actually built directly out of the agrep
code - so its not always making a system call to agrep, it may just be
calling agrep routines internally.  You're right, though, it wasn't at all
clear that you couldn't just use the word-boundary regexps to solve the
problem.

The main problem with doing a lot of literal exec's (and the reason glimpse
does most of its work internally) is cpu time.  Does egrep have a lib
interface?  

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