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Given that grep is not available on windows, I'm trying to use ripgrep as a drop-in replacement so that I can use things like project-find-regexp.

I don't need any extra functionality, just that anything emacs does that would use grep instead uses ripgrep. I've tried following this blog post https://stegosaurusdormant.com/emacs-ripgrep/, to plug it in, but it still tries to use the original grep

Is there a way to just drop in ripgrep for grep so that project-find-regexp works?

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  • grep is available as part of Ezwinports https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/80495/42623 – mxnt Mar 02 '24 at 09:04
  • Thanks @mxnt, this did help, but I found that ezwinports was not so ez to install. This did however prompt me to find GnuWin32 which while older, was very simple to install with winget. I'd still like to find a way to use ripgrep as a drop-in replacement since it is so much faster, but this at least has me working. – Charles Lowell Mar 04 '24 at 15:49

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The easiest solution that I was able to find to make project-find-regexp "just work" on windows was to use the winget package manager that comes with window to install the GnuWin32 version of grep

winget install GnuWin32.grep

followed by the following to install xargs (which is used by project-find-regexp)

winget install GnuWin32.FindUtils
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