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: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:20:47 +0200 Message-ID: <837gocofts.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hanjg14w.fsf@dimension8.tehua.net> <871uen4pve.fsf@gmail.com> <86623yxwg1.fsf@hotmail.com> <861uelxczi.fsf@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356020450 21053 80.91.229.3 (20 Dec 2012 16:20:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:20:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 20 17:21:04 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 1Tlirf-0006sn-Q5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:20:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52732 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlirS-0003iG-4I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:20:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlirI-0003h2-6u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:20:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlirG-00024i-Ro for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:62603) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlirG-00024O-JU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:20:30 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MFC00K007TTWB00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:20:28 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MFC00KEH824WA10@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:20:28 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <861uelxczi.fsf@hotmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:88251 Archived-At: > From: Vagn Johansen > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:57:21 +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. > > OK. I think it is available on XP. Perhaps it has fewer command line > options than on Windows 7 where I looked at the help output. I wasn't thinking about XP. Emacs still supports Windows 98. > > (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.) > > I was thinking of the scenario where the user ran grep/rgrep and it just > worked on Windows because it used findstr underneath. So only one > person had to learn about it. Only for the default switches. If you need something non-default, you'd have to learn it. > It would be pretty cool if people did not have to go hunting for a > grep.exe. Feel free to file a feature request with the Emacs bug tracker.