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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 #166 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: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 19:24:08 +0300

> Cc: 20728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 19:11:19 +0300
> 
> On 06/29/2015 06:26 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> On the other hand, we might want to choose to set
> >> `grep-highlight-matches' to `always' in grep-compute-defaults,
> >> irrespective of the OS.
> >
> > Won't that bring back the problem in symref/grep.el again?
> 
> Why would it?
> 
> The replace (replace-regexp-in-string "--color=always" ...) call is 
> still there.

Ah, OK.  I thought you intended to remove it as part of this.

> - Try M-x xref-find-regexp on a Windows machine (in an Elisp buffer, 
> enter something like "xref-find-").
> - Probably see it fail for the same reason as symref/grep.el did previously.
> - Apply the patch below.
> - Hopefully see it succeed and write back about that.

Will do, thanks.

>  > Assuming we can count on commands that live far away, like
>  > symref/grep.el, to make a point of doing this, it will work, of
>  > course.
> 
> The idea is to force their authors to do it (because the commands won't 
> work otherwise).

Assuming those commands will be used on platforms that reveal the
failures...

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