GNU bug report logs - #49978
28.0.50; grep-highlight-matches auto-detection broken on macOS [PATCH]

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; grep-highlight-matches auto-detection broken on macOS [PATCH]
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:54:43 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
The auto-detection of colourised grep fails on macOS (and presumably BSD in general) because grep --help exits with a nonzero status (while still printing a useful option summary).

We should just ignore the exit status. Anyone against the attached patch?


[grep-highlight-matches-autodetect.diff (application/octet-stream, attachment)]
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