From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: M-x grep: /dev/null appending workaround Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:39:48 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <2tql4pF21gnpsU1@uni-berlin.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098391224 17164 80.91.229.6 (21 Oct 2004 20:40:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 21 22:40:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CKjjK-0005pN-00 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:40:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CKjqm-0002rd-Ld for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:47:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKjqi-0002qe-Ia for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:47:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKjqh-0002qL-T9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:47:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CKjqh-0002qB-QX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:47:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.59.10.2] (helo=chx400.switch.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CKjj3-0005vh-IK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:39:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.1.2]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CKjj0-0001IV-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:39:54 +0200 Original-Received: by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.42) from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1CKjj0-000ANx-DC>; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:39:54 +0200 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:39:54 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 11 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de d+sXsnJA9LLfHTLmRVRn4goFmw9HsPIY0/OoklMMYRV7kHVXU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:9403 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:9403 Dan Jacobson wrote: > I have outsmarted M-x grep's /dev/null appending: > (grep "zgrep -n -e TLS main*|colrm 77 #") for example. > Making zgrep -n -e TLS main*|colrm 77 # /dev/null > be what gets executed. You might want to document this workaround, or > better yet, stop appending the /dev/null hack. You have outsmarted yourself. Use M-x compile instead of M-x grep. -- Kevin Rodgers