Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 02:29, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:

> I actually think that there is no grep etc that handles this kind of
> files on w32. Is there on *nix?

I don't know. I don't use *nix (though I sometimes use GNU/*ux, but I
haven't needed to grep utf-16 files).

> Using grep is an integral part of Emacs.

Relatively speaking. In thirteen years of Emacs use I've grepped from
inside Emacs perhaps twice.

> If grep does not support the
> coding then that part of Emacs will fail.

Absurd. It's up to you to look for a grep that will grok the files you
want to search. grep is not included with Emacs.

> Yes, but that does not help if you have a lot of files you want to search.

Bad luck. You can always use an elisp script to convert them all.

    Juanma