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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: offby1@blarg.net, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>
Subject: Re: [mange@freemail.hu: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument]
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:14:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874q0pk8xm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85u08phhzb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:23:20 +0200")

>> So what you suggest is that the current grep-tree should replace
>> grep-find/find-grep as the default interface, and the current
>> grep-find functionality should be selected if a prefix arg is
>> specified.

> This is somewhat radical and might surprise people.

Surprise is not bad.  Confusing the user would be bad and making her do
something she didn't intend to do would be even worse, but I don't think
either of them applies here: the prompt should be sufficiently different
that she should immediately realize what's going on.

I think that what Kim suggests (rename grep-find to grep-find-command,
grep-tree to grep-find-template, and introduce a new grep-find which calls
either of the two depending on nilness of current-arg-prefix) is the way
to go.  Much better than introducing a complex configuration and prefix-arg
protocol to choose what to do when.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-19 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-18 12:57 [mange@freemail.hu: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument] Richard Stallman
2006-04-18 14:02 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-18 14:44   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-18 15:11     ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-04-18 15:18       ` Lennart Borgman
2006-04-19  8:59         ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-19  9:15           ` Romain Francoise
2006-04-19  9:16           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-19 11:41             ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-19 12:23               ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 12:51                 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-19 13:09                   ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 21:13                     ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-19 13:14                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-04-19 13:28                   ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 13:58                     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-19 14:09                       ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 14:58                         ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-19 15:10                           ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 16:59                           ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-04-19 17:08                             ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 14:52                     ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-19 15:03                       ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 18:10                   ` Bill Wohler
2006-04-19 18:15                     ` Drew Adams
2006-04-19 18:23                     ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 18:34                       ` Bill Wohler
2006-04-19 21:13                 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-19 12:49               ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-18 15:27     ` Romain Francoise
2006-04-19  4:17     ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-19  8:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-19 21:12         ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-20  9:53           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-21  8:27           ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-21 14:47             ` Magnus Henoch
2006-04-21 17:22               ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-21 20:04                 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-21 20:40                   ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-21 21:35                     ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-22 12:03             ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-22 12:41               ` David Kastrup
2006-04-23 16:06                 ` Bill Wohler
2006-04-23 16:19                 ` Bill Wohler
2006-04-22 23:02               ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-23 21:58                 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-23 22:06                   ` David Kastrup
2006-04-24 11:51                     ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-24 12:04                       ` David Kastrup
2006-04-25 16:46                         ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-24 12:10                       ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-24 22:46                         ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-25 16:47                         ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-24 11:05                   ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-24 11:11                     ` Miles Bader
2006-04-24 11:24                       ` David Kastrup
2006-04-24 11:31                         ` Miles Bader
2006-04-24 11:43                           ` David Kastrup
2006-04-24 11:52                             ` Miles Bader
2006-04-24 17:52                     ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-24 18:16                       ` David Kastrup
2006-04-24 20:38                         ` Chong Yidong
2006-04-25 16:48                         ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-26  8:27                           ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-27  4:36                             ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-25  9:06                   ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-29  3:50                     ` Richard Stallman

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