From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [mange@freemail.hu: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument] Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:58:13 -0400 Message-ID: <87mzehisah.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <874q0qudex.fsf@blarg.net> <4445033A.2030002@student.lu.se> <85u08phhzb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <874q0pk8xm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <85d5fdhey2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145455162 31564 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2006 13:59:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:59:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: offby1@blarg.net, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 15:59:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWDCS-00064p-Fz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:58:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWDCS-00025L-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:58:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWDCG-00024f-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:58:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWDCE-00023x-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:58:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWDCE-00023u-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:58:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.110] (helo=tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWDDI-0002OR-3o; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.53.192.213]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060419135813.NILO1543.tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 885FE2FD41; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:58:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85d5fdhey2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:28:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:53073 Archived-At: > And it offers no reasonable way to actually get both: prompting for the > parts, and a final opportunity for editing the resulting command before > sending it off. Shell command completion support would go a long way towards making the difference irrelevant. Also it ocurred to me that grep-tree should put the resulting command onto grep-find's history. > I think the latter is important enough to offer this with a prefix > argument, It's not currently possible, and it's the first time I hear a request for it, so it doesn't seem particularly important. Stefan