Re: Does grep work in Windows

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Mirko wrote:
> On a related note, (I also use cygwin's grep + emacs), when I use grep,
> I cannot follow the grep hits to the files.
> 
> In the *grep* window, I try pressing C-` or Ret on the line containing
> the grep hit, but I get the message "No grep hit here".  The mode line
> reads Grep:exit [matched]
> 
> Although the buffer is in grep mode it seems that none of the
> keybindings are active (Ret, Tab, etc.)
> 
> Just in case that it may help, here is a sample output from grep:

Indeed, why don't the matched lines mention the line number?  `M-x grep'
provides the -n option to the grep program by default so that its output
lines look like:

FILE:LINE NUMBER:TEXT

> -*- mode: grep; default-directory:
> "d:/my-software-add-ons/my-IDL/Numerics/Calculus-like/" -*-
> Grep started at Wed Jan 24 14:05:26
> 
> e:/cygwin-root/bin/grep.exe function *.pro NUL
> DerivTabulated.pro:function
> DerivTabulated,X,Y,UseAsinh=UseAsinh,_extra=_extra
> DerivTabulated.pro:; functions calculates the derivative of the
> tabulated data using
> IntTab1DTrapzd.pro:function IntTab1DTrapzd,vx=vx,vy,vdx=vdx
> IntTab1DTrapzd.pro:; provided a tabulated function y as function of x
> (dimensions N), an
> RunningIntegral.pro:function RunningIntegral,x,y,_extra=_extra
> SplineDeriv.pro:function
> SplineDerivScalar,vxtab,vytab,vy2a,xinterp,iBefore=iBefore
> SplineDeriv.pro:function SplineDerivAtTabPoints,vxtab,vytab,vy2a
> SplineDeriv.pro:function
> SplineDeriv,vxtab,vytab,vy2a,xinterp,aiBefore=aiBefore, $
> SplineDeriv.pro:; given the values of the tabulated function by vxtab
> and vytab, and
> SplineDeriv.pro:; the second derivatives calculated by spl_init, the
> function returns
> SplineDeriv.pro:; the derivative of the function at vxinterp
> inttab2dtrapzd.pro:function
> IntTab2DTrapzd,vx=vx,vy=vy,vdx=vdx,vdy=vdy,mz
> inttab2dtrapzd.pro:; provided a tabulated function y as function of x
> (dimensions N), an
> splineintegral.pro:function
> SplineIntegral,x,y,y2a,AtTabulatedPoints=AtTabulatedPoints, _extra =
> rXtraKwds
> splineintegral.pro:; is set, it returns the cumulative integral of the
> function at the
> 
> Grep finished (matches found) at Wed Jan 24 14:05:28

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA