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		KC8ZKF on March 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Efficiently Browsing Text or Code (esp. with Emacs... (find-grep-dired DIR REGEXP) Find files in DIR containing a regexp REGEXP and start Dired on output.

kirubakaran on March 14, 2012 [–]

That is definitely useful. However the scenarios I explored needed two or more keywords occurring on different lines in a file. This is so that I can significantly reduce the number of files that needed a closer look. Is that easily done with find-grep-dired?

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