From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: grep command doc - point out that you can chain now Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:20:47 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153160668 14099 80.91.229.2 (17 Jul 2006 18:24:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Le Wang Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 17 20:24:25 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 1G2Xjo-0007T0-KA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:22:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2Xjn-00085o-U9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2Xjb-00084I-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:22:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2XjZ-00080a-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:22:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2XjZ-00080I-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:22:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [148.87.113.118] (helo=rgminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1G2XmG-0002rV-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsmt250.oracle.com (rcsmt250.oracle.com [148.87.90.195]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id k6HER9Jg032570; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:22:16 -0600 Original-Received: from dradams-lap.us.oracle.com by rcsmt251.oracle.com with ESMTP id 1577292471153160448; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:20:48 -0600 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:57210 Archived-At: > 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...".