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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2011-12-28 14:57:11 +0100
committerPaolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>2011-12-28 14:57:11 +0100
commitf7413d04da7f9f567127c81aef44700935961d0f (patch)
tree792f6c9e12a4c78bb17d87f87afd8e93e421029f
parentaf5a08dd528dd8ed8d237ba2fe3ae1dab6ede5da (diff)
downloadgrep-f7413d04da7f9f567127c81aef44700935961d0f.tar.gz
update NEWS for MS-Windows changes
* NEWS: Mention MS-Windows related bugfixes and enhancements.
-rw-r--r--NEWS8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 38241596..ef2f9b95 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*-
--files-without-match (-L)
[bug introduced in grep-2.10]
+ grep no longer emits an error message and quits on MS-Windows when
+ invoked with the -r option.
+
+** New features
+
+ grep now supports color highlighting of matches on MS-Windows.
* Noteworthy changes in release 2.10 (2011-11-16) [stable]
@@ -34,7 +40,7 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*-
grep no longer mishandles high-bit-set pattern bytes on systems
where "char" is a signed type. [bug appears to affect only MS-Windows]
- grep now rejects a command like "grep -r pattern . > out",
+ On POSIX systems, grep now rejects a command like "grep -r pattern . > out",
in which the output file is also one of the inputs,
because it can result in an "infinite" disk-filling loop.
[bug present since "the beginning"]