customise grep-find

customise grep-find

[Sam Halliday]

Hi all,

I use grep-find a lot[1] but it irks me that:

1. it opens the results in a new window
2. when selecting a result (e.g. with RET), navigation happens in the other window.

Ideally I'd like the results buffer to appear in the current window, and for selected entries to open in a new window.


Sadly I was unable to find any way to customise this behaviour in the docs[2].

Does anybody have a way to customise either of these two actions?



[1] https://github.com/fommil/unix/blob/master/.emacs#L130
[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Grep-Searching.html

Best regards, Sam

Re: customise grep-find

[Marco Wahl]

Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

> I use grep-find a lot[1] but it irks me that:
>
> 1. it opens the results in a new window

Still open for more comments.

> 2. when selecting a result (e.g. with RET), navigation happens in the
> other window.

C-o runs the command compilation-display-error for me.  This could be
what you want.

> Ideally I'd like the results buffer to appear in the current window,
> and for selected entries to open in a new window.
>
>
> Sadly I was unable to find any way to customise this behaviour in the
> docs[2].

Not a direct answer, but have you played already with "You can find the
corresponding lines in the original files using C-x ` ..." (from the
docs)?


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Re: customise grep-find

[Sam Halliday]

On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 12:27:13 UTC, Marco Wahl  wrote:
> Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:
> > I use grep-find a lot[1] but it irks me that:
> >
> > 1. it opens the results in a new window
> Still open for more comments.


> > 2. when selecting a result (e.g. with RET), navigation happens in the
> > other window.
> C-o runs the command compilation-display-error for me.  This could be
> what you want.

I think that is the same behaviour as I'm currently seeing. I want to navigate in the current window, not the other one.

> > Ideally I'd like the results buffer to appear in the current window,
> > and for selected entries to open in a new window.
> >
> >
> > Sadly I was unable to find any way to customise this behaviour in the
> > docs[2].
> 
> Not a direct answer, but have you played already with "You can find the
> corresponding lines in the original files using C-x ` ..." (from the
> docs)?


That, also, does the navigation in the other window.


Best regards,
Sam

Re: customise grep-find

[Robert Thorpe]

Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:

> I think that is the same behaviour as I'm currently seeing. I want to navigate in the current window, not the other one.

So, you want the *grep* buffer to open with the cursor in it rather than
with the cursor in the buffer you started in?

That's going to be tricky.  Grep & grep-find work by using compile
mode.  This is compile mode's default behaviour, it can't be easily
changed as far as I can tell.  Changing the code in compile.el would
change all buffers that use it.

BR,
Robert Thorpe