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Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:20:47 +0200 |
> From: Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:57:21 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> > Not exactly due to portability problems, but due to the fact that
> >> > there are so many broken ports of 'find' and 'xargs', at least for
> >> > Windows, out there.
> >>
> >> Why not use findstr on Windows then?
> >
> > If you mean by default, then the reason is that findstr is very weak
> > and incompatible (or non-existent) on older versions of Windows. One
> > can customize Emacs to use it, of course.
>
> OK. I think it is available on XP. Perhaps it has fewer command line
> options than on Windows 7 where I looked at the help output.
I wasn't thinking about XP. Emacs still supports Windows 98.
> > (My personal reason for not using findstr is that I don't want to
> > learn yet another tool with yet another set of incompatible options.
> > But that's me.)
>
> I was thinking of the scenario where the user ran grep/rgrep and it just
> worked on Windows because it used findstr underneath. So only one
> person had to learn about it.
Only for the default switches. If you need something non-default,
you'd have to learn it.
> It would be pretty cool if people did not have to go hunting for a
> grep.exe.
Feel free to file a feature request with the Emacs bug tracker.
- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, (continued)
- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, Aidan Gauland, 2012/12/18
- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/12/18
- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/18
- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/12/18
- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/18
- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/12/18
- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/18
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- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, Vagn Johansen, 2012/12/19
- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/19
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- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X, Vagn Johansen, 2012/12/20
- Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X,
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