From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 13:26:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83y6aiqtbq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285933095 3275 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 11:38:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 13:38:13 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 1P1dwH-0006Vb-B0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:38:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38863 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1dwG-0008IE-U6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36804 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1dvy-0007h9-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:37:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1dkz-0008Ml-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:63211) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1dkz-0008Mg-P0; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:26:29 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk36 with SMTP id 36so3673148qyk.0 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:26:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=Owm5Nqk7iflMIqY/mcdg/43Y5oCszeVNnqtnHxWB3rI=; b=QqK9340Ez+mMZ4wTDXHEewbv2zOlhyIW5DvpmWe/5gb40ZIP0OnbgcHsxQt3i7xAPj NFbaDn9qO48QxONBUdjnmoWBq46lsG/VZsG9ZbzbVwgzWt5i0sei2ONk6w28bEmf/zzb UbXYV4p6zwJb9r4R6TGFoWC+Ylsi9kTa6UMvo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=jkUtalzUo3Vi18sKgykqJaE5tFYfYEunzlO2pEEXH7mwvbI5SVPKsGeNEmd2Zbbdk/ 1dhXx1MGsLeLrdu6DH5ZVrXfniz1YXESL6SU7ip/n2GLU5fnjojGDbl7k16zw9Q9KAB5 aMSf4cSq7MANsybwlEJO2AtygY7CVZAmAk64Q= Original-Received: by 10.229.189.83 with SMTP id dd19mr3799576qcb.92.1285932389026; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:26:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.220.195 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 04:26:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:131147 Archived-At: Thanks Mathias, that kind of worked, but I get no *grep* buffer. Beside that it opened Wink for me. Looking at the code I can't see that it could do that - but it does. Anyone understand what happened??? (Wink is a w32 program for making screencasts. Very good, but unfortunately not GPL. I have used it for nXhtml screencasts.) On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Mathias Dahl wrote: > I often use `% g' in Dired for finding files with a certain text in > them. Together with recursive Dired listings this often solves my > needs (although it is slower than using grep.) > > /Mathias > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Lennart Borgman > wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>>> From: Lennart Borgman >>>> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:29:35 +0200 >>>> Cc: Emacs-Devel devel >>>> >>>> > How do we handle what? If you mean, how can Emacs read the text just >>>> > fine... Emacs has supported UTF-16 and many other coding systems for >>>> > years. >>>> >>>> Using grep is an integral part of Emacs. If grep does not support the >>>> coding then that part of Emacs will fail. >>> >>> What's wrong with "M-x occur" and/or "M-x multi-occur"? >> >> They does not do what grep does. >> >> And as I said opening the files in a buffer will be bad because of performance. >> >> However using the internal regexp engine for searching the files would >> be useful, but I have no idea how complicated it is to implement >> something like that. >> >> >