From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: grep -E instead of egrep? Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:25:09 +0200 Message-ID: <85irikiju2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85mz7wim71.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87zmbwcxre.fsf@lrde.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160999765 3193 80.91.229.2 (16 Oct 2006 11:56:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 16 13:56:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZR4U-0006Y1-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:55:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZR4S-00067L-TL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:55:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZR4C-00062h-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:55:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZR4A-00060c-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:55:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZR4A-00060Q-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:55:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GZQkk-0003ty-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GZQbc-0004RU-OE; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:26:05 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 02D401C0CABC; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:25:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: michael@cadilhac.name (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Cadilhac) In-Reply-To: <87zmbwcxre.fsf@lrde.org> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Cadilhac's message of "Mon\, 16 Oct 2006 13\:20\:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60785 Archived-At: michael@cadilhac.name (Micha=EBl Cadilhac) writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> I saw the following change: >> >> 2006-10-15 Lennart Borgman [...] >> >> * progmodes/ada-xref.el (ada-find-in-src-path): Likewise. >> Use grep -E rather than egrep. >> >> Is there a particular reason to prefer "grep -E"? I would have >> thought that "egrep" is much more portable? > > The SUSv3 [1] doesn't have any entry for =AB egrep =BB, and only knows > about =AB grep -E =BB. egrep hasn't been =AB carried forward =BB. Thanks, I did not know about that. --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum