From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: 13693@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13693: M-x grep should do some basic parameter checking
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:46:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqucy52d.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4klxn38.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:02:19 +0800")
> $ emacs
> (grep "grep -nH -e love")
> Will always fail. And the user will think "well, I can't find the love
> letter she sent me, and thus can't find her address, so I will just give
> up," when all along he just forgot to give the filename.
>
> Whereas normally
> $ grep love
> would hang, waiting for input, so he would know that the relationship
> still had a chance, and it was just emacs that was the reason the two
> would have lost touch...
If you tend to forget the pattern or file argument there is a reliable grep
known as `M-x rgrep' that asks you what and where to search.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-13 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 5:49 bug#13693: M-x grep should do some basic parameter checking jidanni
2013-02-12 17:52 ` Juri Linkov
2013-02-12 21:02 ` jidanni
2013-02-13 8:46 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2013-02-13 8:55 ` jidanni
2013-02-14 9:23 ` Juri Linkov
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