On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troe...@uvena.de>
wrote:

> Hi Jiří,
>
> >> I've built new Windows installers from current GIT master.
> >>
> >> [..]
> >>
> >>
> >> Any feedback is welcome.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hi Enrico,
> >
> > seems to be working fine here.
> >
> > One idea: wouldn't it be good to package the grep binary to the installer
> > (and if possible somehow set the preferences to the location where it was
> > installed) so find in files works out of the box? Right now the message
> you
> > get when trying to use find in files is:
>
> great idea!
> Will be included in the next installer, it's just 79kB.
> Luckily, and if I don't miss anything, we don't need to set any paths
> because the default path for grep is just "grep" and when grep.exe is in
> the bin/ directory next to Geany.exe, it should work out of the box.
>

Just tried the latest installer and works great, thanks! Cool it wasn't
necessary to modify the config file when installing.


>
>
> >  search_find_in_files: spawn_with_callbacks() failed: CreateProcess()
> > failed: The system cannot find the file specified.
> >
> > which isn't the most user-friendly message and I guess many people will
> > interpret it as "find in files doesn't work on Windows".
>
> True. I guess we can improve the error message but maybe better after
> 1.25 to not bother the translators too much by breaking the string
> freeze :).
>

I have just created a bug report here

https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/541

It can wait for the next release especially as grep works now.

Cheers,

Jiri
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