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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#17420: [PATCH] grep: always convert fgrep to grep |
Date: | Wed, 07 May 2014 00:00:18 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 |
Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
By the way, if `FGREP_NO_DFA' env. is set, fgrep still uses fgrep matcher.
I'd rather not introduce another environment variable. GREP_COLOR and GREP_COLORS and GREP_OPTIONS are now commonly considered to have been mistakes, and I'd rather not compound them.
Instead, how about removing the fgrep matcher entirely? That'll make the code simpler and easier to maintain, which is a real plus. Perhaps it'll be slower in a few cases, but as long as significant slowdowns are rare, that's OK.
Something like the attached patch, say.
0001-grep-simplify-by-removing-Fexecute-kwsearch.c-etc.patch
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