I'm looking at the cmdtst issues now

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:03:45 +0200 I. Szczesniak wrote:
> 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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