From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: compile.el::grep-program - should it use egrep instead of grep? Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:07:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: 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 1126539746 21541 80.91.229.2 (12 Sep 2005 15:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 12 17:42:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEqPJ-0006gE-S9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:39:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEqPJ-0004ZZ-A2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:39:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EEqLt-0002Qc-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:36:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EEqLr-0002Ph-5m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:36:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEqHZ-0001D9-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EEpub-0005oO-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDEB0E3E9; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:07:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Jari Aalto X-Yow: I am covered with pure vegetable oil and I am writing a best seller! In-Reply-To: (Jari Aalto's message of "Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:31:19 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) 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:42842 Archived-At: Jari Aalto writes: > Could you elaborate a little. The syntax of grep is not sufficient to > make daily searches with M-x find-dired or M-x grep-find that happen > frequently during searching system log files or looking into program > and text document files. In GNU grep there is no expressive difference between BREs and EREs, only the syntax differs. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."