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Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@post.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> >>>>> "John" == John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:
> 
>     John> I just posted this yesterday but it was deep in another thread so I
>     John> thought I'd ask again.
> 
>     John> Does anyone know what's wrong with the grep function in CVS?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running an up to date GNU Emacs from CVS and `M-x grep' works for me.
> 
>     John> M-x grep gives me
> 
>     John> execute-extended-command: Symbol's value as variable is void:
>     John> grep-mode
> 
> Maybe it's something in your startup files. As you can see in the ChangeLog in
> the lisp subdirectory of the CVS tree, grep related things were moved from
> `compile.el' to there own file `grep.el'. Maybe something was customized at your
> site and the transition wasn't made?
> 

You were right.  I didn't properly clean my installation before
reinstalling.  After a distclean all is well.  Thanks for the help


John