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#7785
rgrep is broken on woe32
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Reported by: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:41:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:51:05 -0500
> From: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: ofv <at> wanadoo.es, 7785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> this works just fine, like on linux:
> >> PATH=/cygdrive/c/gnu/gnuwin32/bin:$PATH emacs -q
> >>
> >> moreover,
> >> emacs -q
> >> and moving gnuwin dir to the beginning of exec-path with
> >> (let ((gw "c:/gnu/gnuwin32/bin"))
> >> (setq exec-path (cons gw (delete gw exec-path))))
> >> also works fine.
> >
> > ? What is different between these 2 "working" instances and what you
> > tried now?
>
> OOPS. these no longer work. both produce this:
Something's changed. Perhaps you could remember whether you changed
something in between.
> >> 'c:' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> >> operable program or batch file.
> >
> > This is because "c:/gnu/gnuwin32/bin/xargs", which is after the pipe
> > symbol, is not quoted. So this is something I do understand.
>
> yes, that other cmdproxy issue - any change it will be addressed any time soon?
I'd like to hear from Stefan or Chong before I make that change. In
the meantime, you can do that in your sandbox: just edit the templates
used by grep.el to quote the %s after the pipe symbol.
> thanks again for your time and compassion...
You are welcome, and sorry you are having all this trouble.
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