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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#20728: 25.0.50; grep and grep-find templates should have a place holder for the --color argument |
Date: | Sun, 28 Jun 2015 22:02:21 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0 |
On 06/28/2015 05:35 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Isn't it the other way around: Windows wants 'always' (except when it doesn't, see below), while others want 'auto'?When will `always' not work for the others?I answered that below:
No: when will a given command's behavior on other operating systems be wrong if it was just written to work on Windows (and thus uses either `always' or nil, not `auto')?
As to when you won't want 'always': it's when Grep is invoked as part pf a pipeline, where it's not the last part,
Do we have any such commands? If so, would it hurt them to have to bind `grep-highlight-matches' to nil?
or when the Lisp program that invokes it wants to interpret the results, as opposed to showing them to the user.
Again, any such command will need to bind `grep-highlight-matches' to nil, to work on Windows. Or neutralize some other way the value `always' that it gets set to automatically, on Windows and DOS.
I'd want `nil' in that case, right?In which case? And what do you mean by 'nil' in this context? We are talking about the value of the --color= Grep option, don't we?
In either case: when the pipeline ends with something other than Grep, or when we'll process the output programmatically, and don't need the ANSI codes.
I'm talking about the value of `grep-highlight-matches'.
And I'd have to specify it explicitly anyway, if I want compatibility with Windows.You lost me.
See above.
So, why do we use `auto'?My guess would be: because it mostly does what we want, AUTOmatically: it produces SGR color sequences when Grep is run as a subprocess via a pty, and does not produce them when Grep's output is a pipe.
Do we even have Grep-related commands that use a pipeline that doesn't end with Grep?
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