From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10074: 23.2; emacs rgrep on Windows/Cygwin: FIND: Parameter format not correct Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:58:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83mxbsb9yr.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321704017 10827 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2011 12:00:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10074-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: xahlee@gmail.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 19 13:00:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RRjad-0003lK-PW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:00:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRjad-00088O-1d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:00:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRjaZ-000862-Ao for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:00:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRjaY-0004UX-5U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:00:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRjaY-0004Qb-1U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:00:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RRjbS-0002Ze-IM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:01:02 -0500 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 10074 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 10074@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by 10074-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D10074.13217040609880 (code D ref 10074); Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10074-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Nov 2011 12:01:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RRjbQ-0002ZJ-39 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:01:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RRjbM-0002Z6-Nf for 10074-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:00:58 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LUW00600P6QX700@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 10074-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:59:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.237.133]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LUW006TJPBSWL10@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:59:53 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:01:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:54058 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:36:55 -0800 > From: Xah Lee > > FIND: Parameter format not correct This is Windows find.exe, which is a completely different program, getting confused over the way Emacs calls it. You need to change your Path to have the ported GNU find.exe earlier on Path than C:\WINDOWS\system32 (or wherever the Windows program lives), or rename the GNU find.exe to something like gfind.exe and customize Emacs to call that instead. I'm closing this bug, because its reason is your system configuration. Emacs cannot do anything about that, it just calls the first find.exe it finds along your Path. > It appears, that the problem is because emacs is calling cmd.exe's > grep, not cygwin. The problem is with `find', not with `grep'. > Perhaps `grep-compute-defaults' should know about it. grep-compute-defaults has nothing to do with the problem, so it cannot fix it.