From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: grep-program and grep-command Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:37:20 +0100 Message-ID: <45B9BDC0.20109@gmail.com> References: <45B8D98B.8020504@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169800665 12440 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2007 08:37:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:37:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 26 09:37:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HAMaY-0003Kb-Lm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:37:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAMaY-000603-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:37:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAMaO-0005zo-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:37:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAMaL-0005zZ-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:37:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAMaL-0005zW-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:37:25 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HAMaJ-0007IE-Dv; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:37:23 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:61601 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HAMaH-0008Fv-5D; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:37:22 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000706-2, 2007-01-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HAMaH-0008Fv-5D. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HAMaH-0008Fv-5D 5420ab186f87dc48f108087f5c10d4c9 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65479 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > The grep-command is a defcustom, but grep-program is a defvar. > grep-command is computed by Emacs if its value is nil. > > Let's not mess with this. This is a problem mostly on w32. I have seen that users change grep-command instead of changing grep-program and therefore gets into trouble. Maybe mention grep-program in the doc string of grep-command?