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25.0.50; grep and grep-find templates should have a place holder for the --color argument

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Message #130 received at 20728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 20728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20728: 25.0.50;
 grep and grep-find templates should have a place holder for the
 --color argument
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:28:03 +0300

> Cc: 20728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 22:02:21 +0300
> 
> On 06/28/2015 05:35 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >>> Isn't it the other way around: Windows wants 'always' (except when it
> >>> doesn't, see below), while others want 'auto'?
> >>
> >> When will `always' not work for the others?
> >
> > I answered that below:
> 
> No: when will a given command's behavior on other operating systems be 
> wrong if it was just written to work on Windows (and thus uses either 
> `always' or nil, not `auto')?

See cedet/semantic/symref/grep.el for when we don't want 'always'.

> Do we even have Grep-related commands that use a pipeline that doesn't 
> end with Grep?

I don't know.

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