On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:11 PM, I. Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> ast-cmdtst.2012-03-30.tgz md5 e84b44ba46bef61cf68c4d22dddf3b6b
>> source just posted to www.research.att.com/sw/download/beta/
>> it requires nmake to build so
>
> Yay! :)
>
> Thank you for this great work. I'm still trying to find bugs others
> than Olga already reported but I fail so far. The only annoyance on
> Linux is that I have to do an unalias grep each time before using AST
> grep because Suse and others add an alias for grep which adds --color
> to use xterm colors to highlight matches (on interactive terminals.
> I'm angered enough to consider a patch which adds "--color Ignored for
> GNU coreutils backwards compatibility").

BUG: The grep builtin should use line-buffered output when stdout is
connected to a terminal. An user who uses grep -r in an interactive
shell session may expect line-by-line output and stop grep using
ctrl-c if he sees the expected match coming through. The AST grep
builtin currently uses buffers larger than a 80x24 terminal can show,
i.e. first grep -r prints nothing for a long time until the buffer is
full and each time the buffer is flushed more information is send to
the user than he can chew in a single window at a time. This is quite
user unfriendly.

Irek
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