[Geany] "Find in Files" doesn't work on Windows 7

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Sat Mar 17 03:17:21 UTC 2012


On 12-03-16 09:09 AM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On 16/03/2012 12:01, Fischer, RonaldX O wrote:
>> The only grep.exe in my PATH is the Cygwin implementation of grep.
>> This should work well, and
>> even if there is a problem with my grep, I wonder why I don't see any
>> error message.
>
> That is likely the problem. GLib's spawning on Windows doesn't work with
> everything. Try using grep from:
>

I thought Geany used CreateProcess() or some such from the win32 API for 
this stuff? If not, maybe we could switch this code to use utils_spawn* 
so that it does?

Cheers,
Matthew Brush



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