From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: grep/dired Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:24:31 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F941A4F.4010206@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066671116 11228 80.91.224.253 (20 Oct 2003 17:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 19:31:54 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABdso-0001k0-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:31:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABdsV-0000is-RQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:31:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1066670669 28219238 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117451 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13382 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13382 Mike Ballard wrote: > Tried looking around but sort of don't know how to search for the answer - > when I open a dired buffer of other than ~/, then use M-x grep, it > searches files in ~/. I'm pretty sure the reason is because in ~/.cshrc > the last thing I do is 'chdir $HOME' (which I don't want to change). Yes, you do. :-) > In > csh you can start a script with "-f" telling it to use current env - is > there a way to do the same thing for Emacs' grep so that it will grep on > the current dired buffer? If possible I'd like to use grep and not > find-grep-dired. You could try this hack: (setq shell-command-switch "-f -c") -- Kevin Rodgers