bug#63780: Reversing the grep message output type matching binary files (without the -a option added) changed from stdout to stderr

2023-06-02 Thread Paul Eggert
On 6/1/23 22:36, L A Walsh wrote: Perhaps it would be a good idea for grep to provide such filtering (displaying <00>, or such) for non-ascii data? You mean, migrate some of less's functionality into 'grep'? I suppose something like that might work, if someone put a lot of time into it, and

bug#63780: Reversing the grep message output type matching binary files (without the -a option added) changed from stdout to stderr

2023-06-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2023/06/02 15:17, Paul Eggert wrote: Yes, and grep does that now. The only issue is whether to send that summary information to stdout or to stderr. --- If you want to send all matches from all files to one or the other, that's fine -- the point is to be consistent: sending matches to on