From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Chen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: grep-use-null-device Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:46:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: quarl+dated+1124624469.20ddeb@nospam.quarl.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124195777 15339 80.91.229.2 (16 Aug 2005 12:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 14:36:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E50f5-0003ed-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:35:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E50iU-00028Y-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E504c-0007fk-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E504Y-0007ew-KK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E504X-0007U7-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:57:38 -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 1E50Bz-00087c-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E4zvF-0001Jl-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:48:01 +0200 Original-Received: from quack.cs.berkeley.edu ([128.32.132.234]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:48:01 +0200 Original-Received: from quarl by quack.cs.berkeley.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:48:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: quack.cs.berkeley.edu X-Quack-Archive: 1 Gmane-From: 1 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lCBuB2v1Fs2X68Z4VMv5GM80X20= 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:42116 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42116 >>>>> On 2005-08-15 19:25 PDT, Richard M Stallman writes: rms> So, my grep program supports "-H" but it apparently rms> has not the expected semantics. rms> That is a very vague statement. It tells us nothing. Emilio is reiterating the same issue I raised on 2005-02-03 [1]: Emilio> if I forget to provide a filename to "M-x grep" it Emilio> will run forever, waiting for me to kill it. Kevin Rodgers posted a patch that would allow `grep' to close stdin, solving this annoyance, but it appears it was never followed up. [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-02/msg00090.html [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-02/msg00452.html -- Karl 2005-08-16 04:41