GNU bug report logs - #18805
24.3; tramp adds /dev/null, breaks M-x grep

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)

Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.3

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 18805 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck <at> gmail.com>
To: 18805 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18805: 24.3; tramp adds /dev/null, breaks M-x grep
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:05:49 +1100

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Straight after I hit submit, spacebat of #emacs pointed out
grep-use-null-device inside grep-host-defaults-alist which is
populated by grep-compute-defaults in grep.el:548.

From my understanding of that code, it's trying
    grep -nH ^English /usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/HELLO
on the remote host, which fails because emacs is not installed there,
though GNU grep is and grep does support -H.

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