From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
Cc: 11703-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11703: 23.4; `grep-compute-defaults' passes useless, incompatible "-e" flag to "xargs -0"
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:38:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehjbr151.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51EDAD95-F992-4C23-A3F6-FD55D9EC6F98@gmail.com> (Samuel Bronson's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:49:55 -0400")
Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com> writes:
> Unfortunately, BSD xargs does not accept `-e', so with it Emacs falls
> back to using `find -exec', which gives less-convenient-to-edit command
> lines (since this puts the grep pattern somehere way in the middle of
> the `find' command, rather than at the end).
>
> Furthermore, this use of `-e' seems to be rather pointless, since GNU
> xargs does not appear to have actually done this logical EOF processing
> when `-0' was active within recorded history.
I've committed your patch to trunk. Thanks.
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2012-06-13 23:49 bug#11703: 23.4; `grep-compute-defaults' passes useless, incompatible "-e" flag to "xargs -0" Samuel Bronson
2012-11-30 7:38 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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