From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Irritation in C-u M-x grep, caused by overprotectiveness
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:07:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8x8vtkm5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070731210737.GB2001@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue\, 31 Jul 2007 21\:07\:37 +0000")
>> I've also answered RMS's RFC from V1.65 from a year and 9 hours ago. In
>> the process I've renamed `sh-arg-re' to `pattern-re' to make the code
>> more understandable.
>>
>> Thank you.
> Well, thanks! Should I install the patch or not, and if so to just the
> trunk or Emacs 22 as well?
> I think I should definitely install the comment enhancements. But what
> about the prime change, i.e. causing grep to remember a filename
> argument like "$CC_FILESEL" when started with C-u M-x grep? So far,
> only Stefan has commented - he didn't seem to think the change was good
> or bad.
Yes, I think the behavior implemented by your patch is correct. I also
think it would be even better to implement the behavior I suggested, which
would cover your case as well as several others.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-01 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-29 11:09 Irritation in C-u M-x grep, caused by overprotectiveness Alan Mackenzie
2007-07-29 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-29 15:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-07-29 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <E1IFYM6-000453-N8@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-07-31 21:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-08-01 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-08-01 14:30 ` Richard Stallman
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