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27.0.50; M-x grep appends /dev/null to command line

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Message #29 received at 32093 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 32093 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#32093: 27.0.50; M-x grep appends /dev/null to command line
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 21:11:47 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 08:19:47 -0400
>> Cc: 32093 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
>> 
>> file, the string "English" is no longer at the beginning of the line
>> since [1: 3589c966b7].
>
> Oops!
>
> But is there a good reason why we use HELLO for that?  Why not README,
> say, whose first line will always start with "Copyright"?

Not if the FSF's mission is wildly successful.  But we could still
change the README to state

    Copyright, like to any other software, no longer applies to this
    file.

which would keep the test working.

-- 
David Kastrup

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