From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vagn Johansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:57:21 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <861uelxczi.fsf@hotmail.com> References: <87hanjg14w.fsf@dimension8.tehua.net> <871uen4pve.fsf@gmail.com> <86623yxwg1.fsf@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355997618 1997 80.91.229.3 (20 Dec 2012 10:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:00:18 +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 11:00:33 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 1TlcvS-0002Ia-U6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:00:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlcvE-0006JZ-ME for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:00:12 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EOlycOEcG97vbwhQM7JzK6zEzXs= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 188.179.127.211 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=J:h5gTaX2LNh6dZj2aj97OYSB=nbEKnkKk[nM]W6dP`NcXa`SU1m]jDR]EXLP^hknK0IWLhee3eg>Z8H@jkC>=>= 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:88244 Archived-At: 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. > (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. It would be pretty cool if people did not have to go hunting for a grep.exe. -- Vagn Johansen