From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:41:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285900910 15139 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 02:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Emacs-Devel devel To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 04:41:48 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 1P1VZE-000809-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:41:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1VZD-0003vN-Kj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50925 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1VZ8-0003vG-AL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:41:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1VZ7-0000JW-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:41:42 -0400 Original-Received: from p3plsmtpa01-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ([72.167.82.84]:46922) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1VZ7-0000Ig-0U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 19994 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2010 02:41:36 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (209.85.214.169) by p3plsmtpa01-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (72.167.82.84) with ESMTP; 01 Oct 2010 02:41:36 -0000 Original-Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so4978511iwn.0 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.42.7.15 with SMTP id c15mr5876095icc.17.1285900895923; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.42.5.138 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:41:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:131123 Archived-At: On 9/30/10, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Juanma Barranquero wrote: >> Oh, I wouldn't consider Emacs broken if I cannot grep utf-16 files >> from inside it. YMMV. > > I am a bit surprised by that. Well, the "grep through files" function is semi-broken, but then again, the "send email" function is broken if your mail server is down. ::shrug:: > And are not most of the things to handle that from within Emacs > actually in place? Though of course putting files into buffers to > search them are out of the question for performance reasons. If you take a look at the grep function in Emacs you'll see that all it really does is call a shell command and collect the output. So all the stuff that's "already in place" probably would require loading the text into a buffer.