From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 15:48:33 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Minor copyedits in efaq-w32 X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.2.90~13 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b58ecaf;p=emacs.git Minor copyedits in efaq-w32 * doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi (Grep, Recursive grep): More accurate description of using 'findstr' as a poor-man's replacement for 'grep'. Reported by 范凯 --- diff --git a/doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi b/doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi index 8e067a7a269..cdd01e47f00 100644 --- a/doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi +++ b/doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi @@ -1820,7 +1820,8 @@ If you want a quick solution without installing extra tools, a poor substitute that works for simple text searches is to specify the built in Windows command @command{findstr} as the command to run at the @kbd{M-x grep} prompt. Normally you will want to use the @option{/n} -argument to @command{findstr}. +argument to @command{findstr}, to have it print the line numbers for +each hit. @menu * Recursive grep:: @@ -1860,7 +1861,8 @@ path to the findutils @command{find} command. An alternative if you have a recent version of grep is to customize @code{grep-find-command} to use @samp{grep -r} instead of both find and grep. Another alternative if you don't need the full capabilities -of grep is to use @samp{findstr /n /r}. +of grep is to use @samp{findstr /n /r}; add the @samp{/s} option if +you want a recursive search. @c ------------------------------------------------------------ @node Developing with Emacs