From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Dokos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: grep-find: first ':" char is a zero Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:36:49 -0500 Message-ID: <87v9r6bfam.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <20191125094930.2df74b64@mistral> <20191125101454.46d9ef9a@mistral> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="79896"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 26 20:43:21 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iZgk5-000KeI-1k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:43:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58426 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iZgk3-0002gJ-TA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iZge1-0006qL-Ew for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:37:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iZge0-0001TV-Ft for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:37:05 -0500 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:45214 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iZge0-0001Qk-8l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:37:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iZgdx-000DQP-CQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:37:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:VthuXgk6mo5CY88afk8Top4iKdE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121896 Archived-At: jonetsu writes: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:09:29 -0500 > Noam Postavsky wrote: > >> On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 09:49, jonetsu wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> Yes, customize grep-use-null-filename-separator to nil. > > Thanks, this will be quite helpful. > > In the meanwhile I found that by using hexl-mode on a saved version of > the grep-find results and subsequently exiting hexl-mode, the 0 > character will be shown as caret + @. It then becomes easy to do a > regular search-replace. > > Having grep-find not using a 0 character is the most direct solution. > ... but it might lead to problems with filenames containing white space or other strange chars. Now that you know it is a NUL, you can use `C-s C-q C-' to search for it if you want to keep the --null option on grep. -- Nick "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler