From: Joe Ratterman <jratt0@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:08:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add two grep config options
Message-ID: <AANLkTinNM_tf=rJYXLO8cgaxwpAz2pi8G4nJiwZ9RLR6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcz3yxs8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> But would any user go all that trouble, just not to say "-nE" from the
> command line (or use an alias that was designed not to crash with
> scripts)?
>

I use the $GREP_OPTIONS environment variable to add -n and -P (pcre)
to my grep commands by default.  Coming from a strong Perl background,
I don't know the *exact* difference between basic and extended, so I
do not usually realize I need -E until it gets a little too
complicated.  I generally forget line numbers until I want to start
editing the file, making me run the grep command a second time.  For
me, it is much easier to have them in the environment/config-file,
since I never want to avoid them.

Joe