"ag" and "ag.el" have been of great utility to me. Together they replace "find-grep," and exclude files in a relevant .gitignore from the search. https://gith

"ag" and "ag.el" have been of great utility to me. Together they replace "find-grep," and exclude files in a relevant .gitignore from the search. https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el Read find-grep exclusion patterns from a .findignore file: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/19038/6682 https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/19038/6682