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Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows? |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:11:08 +0200 |
> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:32:40 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> For the case of diff and grep MSYS2 has native binaries
> >
> > But that's about all, so it seems. There are no Coreutils, no
> > Findutils, no Grep, no Sed, etc.
>
> MSYS2 already has native Sed, Grep
It does? Maybe I'm blind, but "pacman -Ss" disagrees, it only shows
msys packages for these.
> Findutils would be doable.
Doable, yes. But not easy, if you want 'find', 'locate', and 'xargs'
to work: they use fork/exec/waitpid, take inode equality to mean
identical files/directories, expect you to be able to pass quoted
wildcards, etc. That's why years ago I had to do my own port, because
the existing ones were either broken, or abysmally slow (or both).
> Nowadays I just install some new fancy searcher (such as ag, the Silver
> Searcher) and that covers the explicit Findutils+Grep case. IIRC there
> are places on Emacs that use Findutils+Grep under the hood (Dired?
> Ediff?).
grep-find and find-dired come to mind, and I think Cedet. But we also
call xargs here and there.
> AFAIR never missed Sed or Coreutils on Emacs on Windows.
You don't use Dired?
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, (continued)
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Stefan Monnier, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Stefan Monnier, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Phillip Lord, 2019/11/18
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Stephen Leake, 2019/11/18
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Phillip Lord, 2019/11/19
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/19
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/11/19
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Phillip Lord, 2019/11/18
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/18
Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Phillip Lord, 2019/11/18