From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:11:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831ru21qar.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0dny5cn.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from Óscar Fuentes on Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:32:40 +0100)
> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:32:40 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> For the case of diff and grep MSYS2 has native binaries
> >
> > But that's about all, so it seems. There are no Coreutils, no
> > Findutils, no Grep, no Sed, etc.
>
> MSYS2 already has native Sed, Grep
It does? Maybe I'm blind, but "pacman -Ss" disagrees, it only shows
msys packages for these.
> Findutils would be doable.
Doable, yes. But not easy, if you want 'find', 'locate', and 'xargs'
to work: they use fork/exec/waitpid, take inode equality to mean
identical files/directories, expect you to be able to pass quoted
wildcards, etc. That's why years ago I had to do my own port, because
the existing ones were either broken, or abysmally slow (or both).
> Nowadays I just install some new fancy searcher (such as ag, the Silver
> Searcher) and that covers the explicit Findutils+Grep case. IIRC there
> are places on Emacs that use Findutils+Grep under the hood (Dired?
> Ediff?).
grep-find and find-dired come to mind, and I think Cedet. But we also
call xargs here and there.
> AFAIR never missed Sed or Coreutils on Emacs on Windows.
You don't use Dired?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-20 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-17 11:50 Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows? Mathias Dahl
2019-11-17 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-17 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 17:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-17 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-18 15:53 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-18 18:05 ` Stephen Leake
2019-11-19 14:56 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-19 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19 20:32 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-20 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-11-18 15:49 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-18 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 15:48 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-18 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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