[Myrmornis]

As an emacs user I do agree with what you're saying. I do all my codebase searching using ag from emacs[1] instead of grep and I absolutely love it: you get the results in a compilation-mode buffer which instantly jumps you to the search hits.

Maybe I should use eshell or one of the comint shells more. But I wouldn't want to leave bash/zsh behind -- I might as well be on windows then :) (which is, btw, a strong argument in favor of the workflow you're describing -- for those poor people who are forced to use windows, eshell is a blessing.)

[1] https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el

[craigching]

Thanks for sharing about ag, I'm going to check that out! Luckily I'm on Linux for most of my development, but sometimes I am on Windows and you're right, eshell is a blessing there :)