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 11:28:49 +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 1285925688 2256 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 09:34:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:34:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 11:34:44 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 1P1c0k-0003d5-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:34:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37401 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1c0h-0006ko-CF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:34:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50865 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1c0P-0006NM-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1bvT-0005S9-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:29:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.216.169]:34324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1bvT-0005S5-3n; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk33 with SMTP id 33so761402qyk.0 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:29:10 -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=U4f2+ukosgQG4A1pCYaFEsgDJIbuacvfMVONmnFTiEQ=; b=tQ3V+0bLmMma++3MLgDSfNR2TAbE5Bp/7smiSDv44eZXbrCfvGCZnYU0QC6H9UBf1R LsPq2YtKAiuf0GKPrMg13woUEtfXObxF0X38aJfmtiUjSFSehEHRUg3jto+plZjDIwCi sgdc4n4T5/RLBrOfoIApI1HTJbMCG3nVhOKRY= 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=GP0EGpeNypYBkYv3JmUiVwTqVnPYBDx71Cmc42fULRQpHJQSkPYkhWV/R4iJhV4VJi 7algi9zq94em9Q9T0rmaJn2uhWBeVAtJPCXSI2f8Tq7PPs9mh1po4e64BSqyNsxoP5Wk Md8Q+00+x9R1t647YWIZNNWtKCxMPHhjT1njU= Original-Received: by 10.224.96.146 with SMTP id h18mr3488194qan.85.1285925349559; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.220.195 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:28:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83y6aiqtbq.fsf@gnu.org> 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:131140 Archived-At: 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.