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Subject: M-x grep prompt: fill in the * for us
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How about when prompting for M-x grep,
    Run grep (like this): grep -n -e
You instead prompt with
    Run grep (like this): grep -n -e X *
with the cursor placed where I've put the X
because otherwise we often forget to fill in the *,
which is often what we want.