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 14:01:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83zkuwpzvr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bp7d1o6k.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83bp7dqcgu.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxqw28cv.fsf@tux.homenetwork> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286020964 12829 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2010 12:02:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:02:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 02 14:02:41 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 1P20nY-0008P0-PF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:02:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41226 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P20nY-0008M0-7P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:02:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56263 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P20nS-0008Lv-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:02:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P20nR-0006Al-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:48834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P20nR-0006AR-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L9N00500VPXAY00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:01:29 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.77.74]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L9N005BOW2A4Q90@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:01:23 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87mxqw28cv.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:131231 Archived-At: > From: Thierry Volpiatto > Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:32:16 +0200 > > It seem most modern windows versions come with powershell. > Why windows users don't use it as backend for Emacs instead of using > external Gnuwin32 programs? How would that help, exactly? When PowerShell came out, I tried it, and found that it had its own quirks, not surprisingly. So we would be replacing one bunch of problems with another. At least the current tools are widely known and well understood, and we have much higher chances getting changes into tools like Grep than into PowerShell.