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From: Sam Steingold <sds@podval.org>
Subject: grep error because of bad previous input
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:32:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alejw7rm1j.fsf@quant8.janestcapital.quant> (raw)

GNU Emacs 22.0.50.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2006-07-24 on quant8

M-x grep RET
foo *.lis[ RET                     ;; typo: "[" instead of "p"
M-x grep RET

==>

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range "*.lis[" 6)
  wildcard-to-regexp("*.lis[")
  grep-default-command()
  (let ((default ...)) (list (read-from-minibuffer "Run grep (like this): " ... nil nil ... ...)))
  (progn (grep-compute-defaults) (let (...) (list ...)))
  call-interactively(grep)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)


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             reply	other threads:[~2006-07-27 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-27 17:32 Sam Steingold [this message]
2006-07-27 17:51 ` grep error because of bad previous input Chong Yidong
2006-07-27 18:16   ` Sam Steingold
2006-07-27 23:46 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-28  7:11   ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-28  7:31     ` David Kastrup

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