Re: M-x grep gets /dev/null automatically appended to the command

[Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org>]

"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Lowell Gilbert
> <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>> "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>>>> "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I have customized my grep-command variable this way:
>>>>>
>>>>> (setq grep-command "git --no-pager grep -n -e ")
>>>>>
>>>>> because I'm working in a git repo.
>>>>>
>>>>> But when I start the grep command (M-x grep), emacs appends
>>>>> '/dev/null' to the git command:
>>>>>
>>>>> git --no-pager grep -n -e seq /dev/null
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anybody tell my what I'm doing wrong ?
>>>>
>>>> Check grep-use-null-device.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Indeed I force it to nil and it magically works. Thanks !
>>>
>>> Other topic: it looks like you're using gnus and newsgroup to post/reply on this
>>> list. Is it possible to CC me when you're replying ?
>>
>> I normally do that with mailing lists and not with newsgroups.  It's
>> possible either way, of course,
>
> Just of curiosity, how do you do that with newsgroups ? any special key bindings
> or do you just add Cc field ?

I do it by hand.  You could automate it, but the trick would be
extracting the e-mail address to use.  Maybe the attribution line
would be the easy way to do it.  Maybe putting it in the followup
command would be better than doing it afterwards -- I don't see any
existing commands to do that, but a wrapper around the followup
command should do it.