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: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:54:54 -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 1126628209 19971 80.91.229.2 (13 Sep 2005 16:16:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:16:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 13 18:16:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFDRY-0006nT-Dx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:15:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFDRX-0000GG-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:15:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EFDJn-0006Br-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EFDJl-0006Al-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFDJk-0005uw-61 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EFD7Z-0007T2-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:54:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1EFD7W-0000hI-P3; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:54:54 -0400 Original-To: Jari Aalto In-reply-to: (message from Jari Aalto on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:31:19 +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:42895 Archived-At: Could you elaborate a little. The syntax of grep is not sufficient to make daily searches with M-x find-dired or M-x grep-find that happen frequently during searching system log files or looking into program and text document files. That is a rather specialized activity. It is a minor side issue as regards the choice of default. grep syntax resembles Emacs regexp syntax, and grep is the "normal case" anyway, so grep will remain the default. If you prefer egrep as the default, you can set it in your .emacs.