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Re: master 82ccc3a: ; Mention the previous change in NEWS


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: Re: master 82ccc3a: ; Mention the previous change in NEWS
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:26:48 +0300
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On 10.06.2021 15:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 18:56:11 +0300

So would you like me to propose the wording, or will you do it?

I'd rather leave that to you. Happy to review the updates, though.

How about the below?

   *** Commands that use 'grep-find' now follow symlinks for command-line args.

                            ^grep-find-template, right?

   This is because the default value of 'grep-find-template' now includes
   the 'find' option '-H'.  Commands that use that variable, including
   indirectly via a call to 'xref-matches-in-directory', will be
   affected.  In particular, there should be no need anymore to ensure
   any directory names on the 'find' command lines end in a slash.

Looks good.

   However, the change is likely to affect only old versions of non-GNU
   'find'.

Not exactly: the change (as described above) will affect all versions everywhere.

What is special about "old versions of non-GNU 'find'", is that the previous scheme (ensuring directory names end in a slash) created problems when used together with them.

We might also want to mention macOS specifically, otherwise the change sounds a bit ridiculous (why do we go out of the way to be compatible with ancient versions of 'find'?)



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