From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [mange@freemail.hu: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument] Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:58:15 +0200 Message-ID: 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> <87mzehisah.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <858xq1hd31.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 1145458877 13932 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2006 15:01:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: offby1@blarg.net, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 17:01:09 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 1FWEAY-0002Fd-Vh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:00:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWEAY-0001x9-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWEAJ-0001vn-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:00:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWEAI-0001vB-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:00:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWEAH-0001v2-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWEBK-0007r1-9C; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:01:26 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C23E262893; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:00:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <858xq1hd31.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:09:06 +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:53076 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > grep-find _currently_ offers to edit the command and nobody complained > about that. See the existance of grep-tree as a complaint :-) > So I don't see how this sanctifies to take away that > possibility without an easy way of accessing it in case of need, short > of redefining an alias. What's difficult about the C-u prefix ?? > For what it's worth, AUCTeX's command dispatcher will understand a > prefix-command as a request to edit the command that is going to be > sent to the shell, and this functionality has been added because it > was requested. To follow that logic, every command which eventually causes a command to be sent to a shell should undeerstand a C-u prefix to mean "edit command string before sending it to the shell" ? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk