From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: 15504@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15504: 24.3; find-dired's numerous prompts are inflexible and annoying
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:16:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l2lfee$589$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761tg1m4z.fsf@gmail.com>
On 10/1/13 7:45 PM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> I prefer to do M-x grep RET and then type something complicated like
>
> grep -r --include '*.c' --exclude-dir .git . -e foo -e bar
>
> ...rather than M-x rgrep which has lots of stupid prompts that then get
> stuck together in a fixed kind of way.
>
> In the same vein, I hate M-x find dired RET multiple prompts. For a few
> years I've been using a munged up replacement that just asks for a
> single command, and runs it (below). The history handling is a bit
> buggered, and it breaks the existing multi-prompt style (presumably some
> people prefer it).
I'm afraid I don't get what you're saying, since `M-x find-dired' only prompts
for the directory to search and the long string of arguments you love to type:
find-dired is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in
`find-dired.el'.
(find-dired DIR ARGS)
Run `find' and go into Dired mode on a buffer of the output.
The command run (after changing into DIR) is
find . \( ARGS \) -ls
except that the variable `find-ls-option' specifies what to use
as the final argument.
And the implementation confirms the documentation:
(defun find-dired (dir args)
...
(interactive (list (read-file-name "Run find in directory: " nil "" t)
(read-string "Run find (with args): " find-args
'(find-args-history . 1))))
...
> PS: find -ls's output is actually crap, because the entries don't line
> up properly and files with spaces become "foo\ bar" which dired mode
> doesn't like, so I generally end up doing "find -exec ls -lidsh {} +".
Apparently that is what `find-ls-option' is for.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-04 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-02 1:45 bug#15504: 24.3; find-dired's numerous prompts are inflexible and annoying Trent W. Buck
2013-10-04 4:16 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2021-05-30 5:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-30 11:41 ` Trent W. Buck
2021-05-30 12:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-30 14:09 ` Trent W. Buck
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