# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1198931899 0
# Node ID e1264c5f9e2338efb8bac41347d299c58528edcc
# Parent  4d283165b713091d0dbc72cfdc6911bdabf8ef93
(ispell-grep-command): Use "grep" on MS-Windows and MS-DOS.
(ispell-grep-options): Use "-Ei" on MS-Windows and MS-DOS.

diff -r 4d283165b713 -r e1264c5f9e23 lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
--- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el	Fri Dec 28 22:27:01 2007 +0000
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el	Sat Dec 29 12:38:19 2007 +0000
@@ -349,12 +349,17 @@
   :group 'ispell)
 
 
-(defcustom ispell-grep-command "egrep"
+(defcustom ispell-grep-command
+  ;; MS-Windows/MS-DOS have `egrep' as a Unix shell script, so they
+  ;; cannot invoke it.  Use "grep -E" instead (see ispell-grep-options
+  ;; below).
+  (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos)) "grep" "egrep")
   "Name of the grep command for search processes."
   :type 'string
   :group 'ispell)
 
-(defcustom ispell-grep-options "-i"
+(defcustom ispell-grep-options
+  (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos)) "-Ei" "-i")
   "String of options to use when running the program in `ispell-grep-command'.
 Should probably be \"-i\" or \"-e\".
 Some machines (like the NeXT) don't support \"-i\""