From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 00:50:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikCi0gLsQbukZtLUam6ZH79aihVm7Exrui8mJRF@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d3rrozyw.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 06:10:14 +0200
>> Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315403.aspx
>>
>> it does not look as it autodetects the coding system in the file.
>
> Why should it?
I don't understand why you are asking. The answer is of course:
Because it would be useful when searching for words in many files (and
you do not know their coding system).
Or, don't you think so?
> What tool does, besides Emacs?
I am not sure, but I would expect at least some better search
engines/indexers to do this. I can't see how they can avoid it.
>> It does not even say it can handle utf-16, or at least I can't find
>> it.
>
> It does support UTF-16. That's the "Unicode" part of the values you
> can submit to the -Encoding option (you need to "think MS" to get it).
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-30 23:13 What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? Lennart Borgman
2010-09-30 23:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-01 0:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 0:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-01 1:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 1:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-01 1:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 1:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-01 2:41 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-01 5:43 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-01 5:37 ` Jan D.
2010-10-01 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 8:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-01 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 12:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-01 17:19 ` Jan Djärv
2010-10-01 22:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-01 7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 9:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 10:35 ` Mathias Dahl
2010-10-01 11:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-01 11:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-01 15:11 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-01 22:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-01 23:35 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-02 0:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 10:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 10:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-02 10:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 14:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 15:05 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-02 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 15:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 20:40 ` Mathias Dahl
2010-10-02 22:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-03 0:35 ` David Robinow
2010-10-03 4:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-03 4:29 ` David Robinow
2010-10-03 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-03 7:25 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-03 4:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-03 10:39 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-03 13:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-03 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-03 22:50 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-10-05 0:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05 0:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05 0:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-05 1:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05 1:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05 1:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-02 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 12:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-02 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 4:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-01 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-01 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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