From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jari Aalto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: compile.el::grep-program - should it use egrep instead of grep? Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:31:19 +0300 Organization: Private Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126536493 9673 80.91.229.2 (12 Sep 2005 14:48:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 12 16:48:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEpZX-0002t7-E2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:46:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEpZW-0008Fa-I3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:46:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EEpXX-0007dN-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EEpXR-0007Zj-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:44:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEpXP-0007WG-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EEpW1-0002yr-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:42:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EEpRc-0006Ma-K4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:38:06 +0200 Original-Received: from a81-197-0-130.elisa-laajakaista.fi ([81.197.0.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:38:04 +0200 Original-Received: from jari.aalto by a81-197-0-130.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:38:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a81-197-0-130.elisa-laajakaista.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bBCZVWpm1SWD7HdlDSwi5s1Qcbk= 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:42841 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: | 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. 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. Wouldn't that warrant to use egrep? This is what most people do with daily searches when M-x grep is needed. egrep would be much more sensible default at startup having no need to set up separate customised changes for every person. Jari