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bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/...
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Drew Adams |
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bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/... |
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Wed, 11 May 2011 11:24:58 -0700 |
> > Seems like Emacs & grep should be able to keep `~/' instead
> > of printing `/cygdrive/c/'. The current behavior is less
> > readable and uses 10 more characters.
>
> Emacs behaves like what you see on all systems: grep reports the
> absolute file names, and Emacs does not convert them back to ~/foo.
>
> But even if we make that change, I doubt that you will see ~/foo in
> your case, because Emacs doesn't know about the /cygdrive/c/ wizardry,
> unless cygwin-mount will help it. And cygwin-mount isn't part of
> Emacs, so we cannot fix it to support that.
>
> And Grep cannot keep the ~/foo notation at all, because ~ is a shell
> construct; applications and filesystems don't understand it, in
> general (Emacs is an exception).
Yes, that's what I figured you'd say. Feel free to close the bug.
Or feel free to keep it open as an enhancement request.
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Drew Adams, 2011/05/11
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/11
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/...,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Andy Moreton, 2011/05/12
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Drew Adams, 2011/05/12
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Andy Moreton, 2011/05/12
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Drew Adams, 2011/05/12
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Andy Moreton, 2011/05/12
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/12
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Andy Moreton, 2011/05/12
- bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/12
bug#8653: 24.0.50; `M-x grep' output converts `~' to /cygdrive/c/..., Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/11