Re: grep-find: first ':" char is a zero

[Nick Dokos]

jonetsu <jonetsu@teksavvy.com> writes:

> On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:09:29 -0500
> Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 09:49, jonetsu <jonetsu@teksavvy.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  [...]  
>> 
>> Yes, customize grep-use-null-filename-separator to nil.
>
> Thanks, this will be quite helpful.  
>
> In the meanwhile I found that by using hexl-mode on a saved version of
> the grep-find results and subsequently exiting hexl-mode, the 0
> character will be shown as caret + @.  It then becomes easy to do a
> regular search-replace.
>
> Having grep-find not using a 0 character is the most direct solution.
>

... but it might lead to problems with filenames containing white
space or other strange chars. Now that you know it is a NUL, you can
use `C-s C-q C-<space>' to search for it if you want to keep the --null
option on grep.

-- 
Nick

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