From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: compile.el::grep-program - should it use egrep instead of grep? Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:55:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126203006 1027 80.91.229.2 (8 Sep 2005 18:10:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 08 20:09:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDQoL-0007U1-Cc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:07:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDQoK-0004iX-PA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EDQjg-0002yR-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:02:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EDQja-0002vq-Mt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDQjZ-0002qg-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:02:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EDQiw-0006Kd-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:02:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1EDQcP-0004zt-9w; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:55:26 -0400 Original-To: Jari Aalto In-reply-to: (message from Jari Aalto on Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:54:32 +0300) 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:42753 Archived-At: The use of grep(1) command in all of there is not optimal. So my question was wheather there were any *nix OS that did not define egrep(1) and thus would prevent using "egrep" as a default value. I do not want to change to egrep as the default value for grep-program. Sorry.