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 _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
