On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html