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Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?
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Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:28:49 +0200 |
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:29:35 +0200
>> Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>
>>
>> > How do we handle what? If you mean, how can Emacs read the text just
>> > fine... Emacs has supported UTF-16 and many other coding systems for
>> > years.
>>
>> Using grep is an integral part of Emacs. If grep does not support the
>> coding then that part of Emacs will fail.
>
> What's wrong with "M-x occur" and/or "M-x multi-occur"?
They does not do what grep does.
And as I said opening the files in a buffer will be bad because of performance.
However using the internal regexp engine for searching the files would
be useful, but I have no idea how complicated it is to implement
something like that.
- 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?, 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, 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?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/10/01