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Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:09:41 +0200 |
> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 01:58:38 +0200
> Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>
>
> > Is grep sometimes useless on w32 now, or?
>
> It will be useless whenever you try to grep a file in a coding system
> the grep tool does not support...
Grep treats its input as a stream of bytes. So it will not be able to
support any encoding where each character, including ASCII, takes 2 or
more bytes. Unless you also encode the search string in the same
encoding, that is.
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, (continued)
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Jan D., 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Andreas Schwab, 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Andreas Schwab, 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Jan Djärv, 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/10/01
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, PJ Weisberg, 2010/10/01
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/01
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/10/01