Matthew Wilson <matt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > At least once a week, I want to find some code that uses a few modules, > so I have to launch a find + grep at the top of the tree and then wait > for it to finish. Personally I use glimpse for this. It's a bit old and creaky but it performs wonders. There might be something better out there by now. I wouldn't recommend trying to use a standard FTS to index code: code is not a natural language and the kinds of searches you usually want to perform are a lot different. As an example, I glimpse for "foo" when looking for references to a function foo, but "^foo" when seeking its definition (this relies on the coding conventions about function layout, of course). An FTS doesn't think start-of-line is significant so it can't do that. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
