From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: grep command doc - point out that you can chain now
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:05:32 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17597.62940.618502.869151@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMIENNCJAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
> It's a bit awkward to explain in the manual....Why not
> just extend the existing entry in NEWS?:
>
> Piping grep commands is particularly useful;
I'm not questioning its usefulness, just saying that I think its description
is more appropriate to a Unix manual.
> the others you mention are not.
Actually remote debugging in Emacs would be rather useful to those that do it.
> The fact that you can chain multiple greps and use the result in buffer
> *grep* is an extension of grep functionality, in effect. I think it would be
> useful to mention that one use pattern in the Emacs manual, where grep is
> discussed.
Yes, as you've already said.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-19 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-17 3:39 grep command doc - point out that you can chain now Drew Adams
2006-07-17 7:26 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-17 8:19 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-17 15:28 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-17 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-17 18:20 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-18 0:12 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-18 2:30 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-18 4:22 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-18 5:02 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-18 5:53 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-18 15:00 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-18 14:59 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-18 21:12 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-19 6:05 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-19 7:02 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-19 8:52 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-19 9:05 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2006-07-19 21:15 ` Richard Stallman
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