From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: peta@whaite.ca Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: errors from M-x grep Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:58:23 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200404141558.i3EFwN7L003700@brains.moreideas.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081958879 1397 80.91.224.253 (14 Apr 2004 16:07:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:07:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 14 18:07:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BDmvT-0001LE-00 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:07:47 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BDmvT-0003LS-00 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:07:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BDmt2-0005NF-9Z for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BDmsf-0005MD-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:04:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BDmmt-0003C8-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.185.220.223] (helo=priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BDmms-0003Ap-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:58:54 -0400 Original-Received: from brains.moreideas.ca ([142.169.182.241]) by priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with ESMTP id <20040414155849.HIYN4035.priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net@brains.moreideas.ca>; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:58:49 -0600 Original-Received: from brains.moreideas.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by brains.moreideas.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3EFwNxI003704; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from brains.moreideas.ca (peta@localhost) by brains.moreideas.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i3EFwN7L003700; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:58:23 -0400 Original-To: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBCw7xzY2hpbmc=?= In-Reply-To: Message from =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBCw7xzY2hpbmc=?= of "Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:33:40 +0200." <407D0574.8030803@tzi.de> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.3+cvs; nmh 1.0.4; GNU Emacs 21.3.50.21 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21626 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21626 This happened to me when I hadn't updated my cvs emacs for quite a long time and there had been changes to lisp/progmodes/grep.el. Normally I `cd lisp; make recompile` before installing. After I got the error I tried `cd lisp; make compile` instead, and that fixed it, but I have no idea if thats the best approach. See INSTALL.CVS for other possibilities. Andreas Büsching wrote: > > When I saw the first posting to this thread I just hoped it will find a > solution for my problem with M-x grep, but it didn't. > > I have a problem with the grep function that I can not solve with my knowledge > about lisp. To reproduce it I do the following steps. > > - run emacs -q > - optionally open a file > - M-x grep > > The result is the following error message: > > Loading grep... > execute-extended-command: Symbol's value as variable is void: grep-mode -- Peter Whaite (http://whaite.ca)