From: Tak Kunihiro <homeros.misasa@gmail.com>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 36558@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp
Subject: bug#36558: When the user forgets the filename when using M-x grep
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:22:59 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8636jdqxt8.fsf@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1cq5baw.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:22:31 +0200")
>> I don't think the M-x grep command has the ability for the user to
>> change the default prompt from the current
>>
>> Run grep (like this): grep --color -nH --null -e
>>
>> to the rather more sophisticated
>>
>> Run grep (like this): grep --color -nH --null -e [] *
>>
>> where "[]" represents where the cursor should be placed when prompting
>> the user.
>
> I virtually never want to grep all files in a directory, so having to
> hit `C-k' first would be a disadvantage, I think. And this is the kind
> of interface twiddling that annoys people used to the old defaults, so
> I'm closing this bug report.
I had a similar thought. I am OK now with following configuration.
(grep-apply-setting 'grep-command "grep -inHr . -e ")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-10 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-09 0:04 bug#36558: When the user forgets the filename when using M-x grep 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-10 12:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-10 23:22 ` Tak Kunihiro [this message]
2019-07-11 0:38 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-11 9:44 ` Tak Kunihiro
2019-07-11 18:48 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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