Re: Problem with grep in Emacs 23.2

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <mailman.0.1283844542.27325.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Shenli Zhu  <zhushenli2@gmail.com> wrote:
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>Set grep-use-null-device to t, problem solved.
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>On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Shenli Zhu <zhushenli2@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Lennart, thank you,
>>
>> I set grep-use-null-device to nil, but the problem still happen.
>>
>> Maybe I shall trace the code to find how to avoid grep-probe. There is no
>> switch to turn off (grep-compute-defaults) in grep, because different
>> versions of grep. But I think most of people work on Linux and Gnu grep. So
>> why not have a switch tell it do not compute defaults?
>>
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>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Use customize to set the needed values, for example:
>>>
>>>  M-x customize RET grep-use-null-device RET
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Shenli Zhu <zhushenli2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi, Lennart, how to skip grep-probe/grep-compute-defaults (add hook or
>>> > change variable)?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Lennart Borgman <
>>> lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Shenli Zhu <zhushenli2@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> > Hi Peter,
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Do you mean the grep-command I set should be runnable in shell? I
>>> just
>>> >> > use
>>> >> > grep-command to store the grep template, so it cannot be run in
>>> shell.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Why we need probe-grep? To test whether grep exists and whether its
>>> >> > function
>>> >> > works correctly? Can I skip it?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> probe-grep tries to find out what grep program you actually use and
>>> >> what it can do. So, yes, you can skip it if you know what the program
>>> >> can do.
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
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Hi -- I just came across this thread.  This M-x grep problem is 
a bug that you guys have now fixed in the sources, etc?

Or is this something that, when I start using it, each of will
have to do that fix ourselves?

Or what.  Am just a little confused.

THANKS!

David