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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: grep-find oddity
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:49:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA7AD9F.2000001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxy0thw6.fsf@pobox.com>

On 22/03/10 09:56 AM, Tom Roche wrote:
> Wrong) to be a likely source of error. Am I missing something? Or is
> there an overriding motivation for making null-string termination the
> default?
>

It is a shell thing. With a null string terminated list, its easier to 
deal with file names with special characters.

> thanks for the tip, Tom Roche<Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
>

HTH
-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.




      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-22  3:38 grep-find oddity Tom Roche
2010-03-22  4:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-22 16:56   ` Tom Roche
2010-03-22 17:49     ` Suvayu Ali [this message]

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