From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add M-x occur to the menu-bar Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:21:11 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F69E987.8050400@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063906599 17607 80.91.224.253 (18 Sep 2003 17:36:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 18 19:36:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A02hp-0007gU-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:36:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A02lu-0007xy-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:40:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A02h7-0002Fs-UX for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:35:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A02eK-0001l5-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:33:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A02cq-00013z-RY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:31:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 1A02cG-0000fr-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A02So-0000hX-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A02ST-0002I7-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:20:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A02SS-0002Hs-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:20:44 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A02Sk-0003xT-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:21:02 +0200 Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:16468 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16468 Richard Stallman wrote: [quoting Simon Marshall;] > I think M-x grep and M-x occur should have as similar a UI as possible. > > All else being equal, I agree. People have tried making interfaces > for grep that separate the arguments. I think one such is actually > installed as an alternative. But they are simply less convenient > than M-x grep. As the author of igrep.el, I respectfully disagree. By separating the arguments, you can provide access to independent completion (primarily for file names) and history (primarily for search strings/expressions). -- Kevin Rodgers