From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:35:08 +0200 Message-ID: <837goeoy1f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hanjg14w.fsf@dimension8.tehua.net> <871uen4pve.fsf@gmail.com> <86623yxwg1.fsf@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355931359 6235 80.91.229.3 (19 Dec 2012 15:35:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:35:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 19 16:36:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TlLgr-0002CQ-3k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:36:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56675 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlLgd-0000Zl-6Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:35:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlLgT-0000X6-FC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:35:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlLgQ-0001XN-S6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:35:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:36892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlLgQ-0001Wd-34 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:35:46 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MFA00A00B1GHP00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:34:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MFA00ADLBA4CK50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:34:53 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <86623yxwg1.fsf@hotmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88219 Archived-At: > From: Vagn Johansen > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:44:46 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Not exactly due to portability problems, but due to the fact that > > there are so many broken ports of 'find' and 'xargs', at least for > > Windows, out there. > > Why not use findstr on Windows then? If you mean by default, then the reason is that findstr is very weak and incompatible (or non-existent) on older versions of Windows. One can customize Emacs to use it, of course. (My personal reason for not using findstr is that I don't want to learn yet another tool with yet another set of incompatible options. But that's me.)