Re: igrep on remote files with tramp?

[Daniel Berdine]

In article <rothaar-CADE09.13380328072005@news.ispnetbilling.com>,
 Daniel Berdine <rothaar@gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to work with files on a remote server, and tramp so far has 
> seemed the best way to get the job done. However, I would very much like 
> to be able to use the igrep functions, in particular dired-do-igrep, in 
> this context. Unfortunately, igrep doesn't seem to know how to use 
> tramp. Looking at igrep.el (2.112), there appears to be at least some 
> support of ange-ftp built in. Does there exist a version of igrep.el 
> that knows about tramp as well as/instead of ange? Or, does anyone know 
> of any other way to make it work? My Google searches so far turn up 
> zilch.

Oops, left out the output, which follows.

-*- mode: igrep; default-directory: 
"/ssh:berdine@fermi.pas.rochester.edu:/home/berdine/MADGRAPH/Code.testing
/" -*-
grep -n  -e alpha_s coupl.inc /dev/null
grep: coupl.inc: No such file or directory

Igrep exited abnormally with code 2 at Thu Jul 28 13:50:47