Re: Is Elisp really that slow?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 17.05.2019 17:50, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> > On 17.05.2019 17:01, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> > > Then, when
> > > you need to do a search&replace that goes beyond the dumb thing that the
> > > dialog offers, well, bad luck.
> >
> > What do you do to search&replace in all files across the project?
>
> What I do is invoke a searcher such as "ag" or vc-git-grep and then
> wgrep to operate on the resulting buffer. This has the advantage that I
> can simply do a replace-string or a more detailed manual edition on a
> case-by-case basis with the associated file on a side window for
> context, etc.

A lot of the time, you don't need detailed editing for matches, though.

And the "dumb thing" the popular editors offer serves this case (as well 
as many others) actually very well and better than Emacs. So there's no 
reason to feel all smug and content, in my opinion.