[Geany] Replacing grep with grin in file search

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Sun Jan 30 12:06:21 UTC 2011


On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:01:03 +1100, Lex wrote:

>On 28 January 2011 00:34, Vineet Jain <vinjvinj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Grin is a grep like search tool with several improvements when
>> searching through source files.
>>
>> http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2011/grin-and-search-it/
>>
>> What would be required to grin instead of grep in the search wizard?
>
>Essentially it has to be command line and compatible with GNU grep
>(see note in manual regarding options used). And the output needs to
>be compatible so click on line in the message window will go to the
>file location.  If grin can be set up that way you can use it.

Exactly.
Plus one more little information just in case it isn't obvious enough:
to actually change the executed command when using Find in Files, go to
the preferences dialog and choose the Tools tab, there you can
configure the used command.


Regards,
Enrico

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