Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:57:21 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> > Not exactly due to portability problems, but due to the fact that
> >> > there are so many broken ports of 'find' and 'xargs', at least for
> >> > Windows, out there.  
> >> 
> >> Why not use findstr on Windows then?
> >
> > If you mean by default, then the reason is that findstr is very weak
> > and incompatible (or non-existent) on older versions of Windows.  One
> > can customize Emacs to use it, of course.
> 
> OK. I think it is available on XP. Perhaps it has fewer command line
> options than on Windows 7 where I looked at the help output.

I wasn't thinking about XP.  Emacs still supports Windows 98.

> > (My personal reason for not using findstr is that I don't want to
> > learn yet another tool with yet another set of incompatible options.
> > But that's me.)
> 
> I was thinking of the scenario where the user ran grep/rgrep and it just
> worked on Windows because it used findstr underneath. So only one
> person had to learn about it. 

Only for the default switches.  If you need something non-default,
you'd have to learn it.

> It would be pretty cool if people did not have to go hunting for a
> grep.exe.

Feel free to file a feature request with the Emacs bug tracker.