Re: customise grep-find

[Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>]

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