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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-06-08 18:48:33 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-06-08 18:48:33 +0300
commitb58ecafcdc8e13537b21860a222d13c73c851e7c (patch)
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parent48422af0f327f3df45b6dc518708f36b4ed5f9d8 (diff)
downloademacs-b58ecafcdc8e13537b21860a222d13c73c851e7c.tar.gz
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 <m_pupil@163.com>
-rw-r--r--doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
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.
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