From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: grep command doc - point out that you can chain now
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:20:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMOEMICJAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <umzb8jend.fsf@gnu.org>
> I don't think it should be pointed out in the manual because
> you would expect it to work. However it might be worth mentioning
> it in NEWS, so that users who have tried it in the past know it
> will now work.
>
> I don't think it's obvious ("you would expect it to work"),
> since Emacs `grep' is asking for input to the Unix/GNU-Linux `grep'
command.
IMHO, it should suffice to say that "M-x grep" expects _any_ shell
command whose output resembles that of Grep. That includes, for
example, "find SOMETHING | xargs fgrep" etc.
Yes indeed. That's even more general, and I wasn't aware of that. It's
important to include the example, to illustrate what is meant by "shell
command whose output resembles...".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-17 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-17 3:39 grep command doc - point out that you can chain now Drew Adams
2006-07-17 7:26 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-17 8:19 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-17 15:28 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-17 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-17 18:20 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2006-07-18 0:12 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-18 2:30 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-18 4:22 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-18 5:02 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-18 5:53 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-18 15:00 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-18 14:59 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-18 21:12 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-19 6:05 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-19 7:02 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-19 8:52 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-19 9:05 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-19 21:15 ` Richard Stallman
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