From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How best to set grep command based on current directory?
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 09:10:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a6cuaisn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6cvkqo4.fsf@md5i.com> (message from Michael Welsh Duggan on Fri, 08 Apr 2022 21:10:19 -0400)
> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 21:10:19 -0400
>
> I would like to change the program invocation in "M-x grep" (or maybe
> "M-x grep-find") to default to "git grep" when in directories that are
> in git trees. I could hack away at the grep.el sources to do this, or I
> could write some advice around the grep command to do this, but I want
> to ask here, first, if anyone believes that there is a more principled
> way to make this change.
That must be an opt-in behavior, to avoid surprising the users.
"M-x grep" is a very old command, so I don't think we can change
its behavior in such radical ways unconditionally.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-09 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-09 1:10 How best to set grep command based on current directory? Michael Welsh Duggan
2022-04-09 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-04-09 9:22 ` Yuri Khan
2022-04-09 22:43 ` Jim Porter
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