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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 03:06, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> If the tool chain is broken then the tools that depends on it are also
>> broken. Aren't they?
>
> Oh, I wouldn't consider Emacs broken if I cannot grep utf-16 files
> from inside it. YMMV.

I am a bit surprised by that.

>> Yes, but that is a quite unfortunate state IMO. New users will just
>> say "ah, this tool is broken, let us try something else".
>
> And what will they use?

Some tool with an internal search capable of handling utf-16 files?

And are not most of the things to handle that from within Emacs
actually in place? Though of course putting files into buffers to
search them are out of the question for performance reasons.