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rgrep is broken on woe32

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: ofv <at> wanadoo.es, 7785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>, 6784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7785: bug#6784: bug#7785: rgrep is broken on woe32
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:00:43 -0500

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

> The discussions in that bug report concluded that the program file
> name after the pipe needs to be quoted, in order for it to work with
> file names that use forward- and back-slashes alike.  I can solve that
> problem for rgrep (and for other similar commands) by tweaking the
> templates used by grep.el, so as to quote the %s after the pipe
> character `|'.  Would that be an okay solution?

I think this is an acceptable solution, and agree that changing cmdproxy
to handle this intelligently sounds like a nightmare.

> The disadvantage is, of course, that similar solutions will have to be
> implemented for each Emacs command that launches a shell pipeline.

Let's just fix these individually as the problems are reported.

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