From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:23:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83ocbcpqif.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bp7d1o6k.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83bp7dqcgu.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxqw28cv.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87mxqw4oup.fsf@tux.homenetwork> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286033087 26790 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2010 15:24:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 15:24:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 02 17:24:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P23x6-0007Mo-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:24:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P23x5-0005WV-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33659 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P23wv-0005UY-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P23wt-0006vx-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:24:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:60391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P23wt-0006vn-OS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L9O00A0058SUY00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:23:48 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.77.74]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L9O00A4F5FN95D0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:23:48 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87mxqw4oup.fsf@tux.homenetwork> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131247 Archived-At: > From: Thierry Volpiatto > Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:05:18 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Based on your advice I just took the trouble to install powershell. I > > can not see that it addresses the problem with utf-16, but maybe I am > > missing something. Can you please tell me how to search also utf-16 > > files with it? > > That's just an idea i sent, i personally don't use (or really few > sometimes on other machines) windows systems and i have just a basic > knowledge of all that is related to it and microsoft in general (e.g Powershell). > So i can't help you much here. > Anyway, Eli seem to have tried it and is not convinced. Looks like the PowerShell cmdlet that's supposed to be equivalent of Grep is Select-String.