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 15:15:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83tyl4pwg7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bp7d1o6k.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83bp7dqcgu.fsf@gnu.org> <831v88rejn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286025348 29907 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2010 13:15:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 13:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 02 15:15:47 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 1P21wI-0001Tv-Sw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:15:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53849 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P21wI-0002ik-8v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:15:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38417 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P21wA-0002hj-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P21w9-0001AR-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:15:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:38272) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P21w9-0001A6-HZ; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L9N00900ZB6T500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:15:32 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.77.74]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L9N0093YZHUSS10@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:15:31 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: 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:131237 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 14:44:31 +0200 > Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Lennart Borgman > >> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:12:08 +0200 > >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org > >> > >> Thanks. So then the question is why the grep program does not support > >> it. > > > > Because no one has coded that in Grep, I'd guess. > > > Is that really the whole answer? If utf-16 is so widely used on w32 > then is it not surprising that it is not understood by Grep? Look at the ChangeLog in Grep distribution: there are exactly zero contributors of Windows related code there. About the only entry that mentions Windows is a minor bug fixed 6 months ago. And that's it.