From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 82ccc3a: ; Mention the previous change in NEWS Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:20:24 +0300 Message-ID: <831r99dcnr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lf7lfwc8.fsf@gnu.org> <835yyoft5k.fsf@gnu.org> <83tum8e6xb.fsf@gnu.org> <00d9453e-7f49-7f50-7017-6a518b3086ed@yandex.ru> <83r1hce4xx.fsf@gnu.org> <835yyldiek.fsf@gnu.org> <0991e76a-b969-4e46-c051-ead1ba2e5bb8@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21724"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 10 16:21:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lrLYl-0005OD-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:21:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54156 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrLYj-0007Ya-Qi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:21:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrLXv-0006nd-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:20:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrLXv-0000sg-Fw; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:20:35 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4285 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrLXu-0004oP-UD; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:20:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <0991e76a-b969-4e46-c051-ead1ba2e5bb8@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:26:48 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:270643 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:26:48 +0300 > > > *** Commands that use 'grep-find' now follow symlinks for command-line args. > > ^grep-find-template, right? > > > This is because the default value of 'grep-find-template' now includes > > the 'find' option '-H'. Commands that use that variable, including > > indirectly via a call to 'xref-matches-in-directory', will be > > affected. In particular, there should be no need anymore to ensure > > any directory names on the 'find' command lines end in a slash. > > Looks good. > > > However, the change is likely to affect only old versions of non-GNU > > 'find'. > > Not exactly: the change (as described above) will affect all versions > everywhere. > > What is special about "old versions of non-GNU 'find'", is that the > previous scheme (ensuring directory names end in a slash) created > problems when used together with them. > > We might also want to mention macOS specifically, otherwise the change > sounds a bit ridiculous (why do we go out of the way to be compatible > with ancient versions of 'find'?) So what change do you propose to the last sentence?