On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:50 PM, I. Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Glenn, David, are you going to release a new ast-cmdtst beta this week?

Irek
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