Re: Elisp: Search a File Without Visiting?

[Eric Hanchrow]

>>>>> "Tad" == taashlo  <taashlo@sandia.gov> writes:

    Tad> My question: is it possible (using elisp) to search the
    Tad> contents of the thesaurus file *without* loading it into a
    Tad> buffer?

You could use, or duplicate the code of, the `grep' command.  That
simply runs `grep' in a subprocesses and captures the output in a
buffer.
 
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