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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>, <516@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
Subject: bug#516: [PATCH] Minor Enhancement for grep.el: auto-input thesymbol into minibuffer command line.
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 20:36:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AF6FC014CDF1491FBE5CCF731EF6BA5B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87einaqjxu.fsf@mail.jurta.org>

> > This patch is to let you input the cursor position symbol 
> > automatically into minibuffer command line. I think it makes
> > us easier to use "grep-find" function.
> 
> There is a function `grep-default-command' in grep.el that does this.
> I wonder why it's used in `grep', but not in `grep-find'.  I think
> we should do the same in `grep-find'.

Yes, and as I've suggested before, if the region is active, then its contents,
surrounded by "s, should be the default search string. Example code:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/grep%2b.el






  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-05  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-02  3:47 bug#516: [PATCH] Minor Enhancement for grep.el: auto-input the symbol into minibuffer command line Kazuo YAGI
2009-12-05  0:38 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-05  4:36   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-12-05 19:51     ` bug#516: [PATCH] Minor Enhancement for grep.el: auto-input thesymbol " Juri Linkov
2009-12-05 20:28       ` Drew Adams
2009-12-06  0:35         ` Juri Linkov
2019-06-27 18:05 ` bug#516: [PATCH] Minor Enhancement for grep.el: auto-input the symbol " Lars Ingebrigtsen

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