RE: `grep' command on MS Windows with Cygwin, looking for text with Unicode chars

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> Depending upon what you are wanting to do I might mention that emacs
> dired can be very powerful here.
> 
> I am often doing C-x d to start dired.  Then using:
> 
>   C-x d RET               ;; open directory dired
>   % g REGEXP <RET>        ;; mark all files containing pattern
>   Q REGEXP <RET> TO <RET> ;; Perform query-replace-regexp on marked files
> 
> If nothing else then % g is a native emacs way to search contents of
> files and should handle unicode as well as for other tasks.

Excellent reminder about that, Bob.

That was the same reason I used Icicles search - let Emacs itself
do the searching/matching.  I still would like to be able to also
use `M-x grep'.