And, amazingly, you managed to get through this whole list without mentioning igrep-find, which is what I've been using: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/

And, amazingly, you managed to get through this whole list without mentioning igrep-find, which is what I've been using: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/igrep.el http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/igrep.el A lot of people have attacked the grep problem in emacs.