Il 19/12/2012 19:10, Jim Meyering ha scritto: >>> I would be in favor of reverting the patch. I never liked the idea. >> >> FWIW (speaking as a humble user here) I do like that new behaviour, >> and I'd prefer not to see it reverted. > > I find the new behavior more useful, too. > > Before its addition, I would sometimes type "grep -r PATTERN", and it > would take a few seconds for me to realize the lack of output was not due > to a big directory with no matches, but due to that old grep waiting for > something on standard input. That was frustrating, so I do appreciate > the new behavior and would like to retain it.
As a user I _do_ like it. As a maintainer, I have to care for all users and backwards-compatibility, and I think it was a very wrong thing to do. Paolo
