Re: macro help

[Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>]

Peter Lee <spam@nospam.org> writes:

> I'm having trouble writing a macro to perform a grep-find
> command. Basically I just want to grep the current word in the
> buffer. I would like to be able to use grep-find for this.
>
> This doesn't work.
>
> (defun grep-cur-word (&optional arg)
>   "grep-find on the current word"
>   (interactive "p")
>   (grep-find (current-word)))

> I just want to pass the current-word to grep-find so I can then bind
> it to a key. It would save me a lot of typing.

Try something like this:

(defun grep-cur-word ()
  "grep-find on the current word"
  (interactive)
  (unless grep-find-command
       (grep-compute-defaults))
  (grep (concat grep-find-command "\"" (current-word) "\"")))

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