[Geany-Users] grep won't follow syminks anymore

Lex Trotman elextr at gmail.com
Sun Dec 9 23:04:35 UTC 2012


On 10 December 2012 08:14, Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
> Le 09/12/2012 21:51, Christoph Siefer a écrit :
>> Thanks very much for your fast reply,
>>
>> I was not considering to edit the code
>
> You probably can use the extra options field to specify -R.
>
>> ... but will do so.  Would you
>> consider a change-request (I think there will be more users comming up
>> with this issue)?
>
> Well, the question will be which behavior is the expected one, but I
> guess yeah, we could change it to -R so it gets the old behavior with
> any version of grep; given that grep -R is as standard as grep -r.

Well, neither is "standard", they are gnu grep specials, but -R has
been there since 2001 so most current versions should be ok.

Cheers
Lex

>
> Regards,
> Colomban
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