Re: rgrep with (some) fixed parameters

[Stefan Vollmar <vollmar@nf.mpg.de>]

Dear Kevin,

On 07.06.2008, at 16:23, Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> Stefan Vollmar wrote:
>> If I do the equivalent of a
>> (setq grep-find-command "find somepath \\( -path \*/.svn \\) -prune  
>> -o -type f \\( -iname \\*.cpp \\) -exec grep -nH -e  {} /dev/null \ 
>> \;")
>> in my .emacs file,
>> C-u C-u M-x rgrep
>> does indeed use this pattern (and does not ask about anything else,  
>> and I could use a keyboard shortcut for this) - so far so good.  
>> However, I feel that having to look at that long-ish command every  
>> time I use it, is not elegant - in particular, as I need to  
>> navigate to the correct position when the find command is being  
>> displayed in the minibuffer (point should be between "-e" and "{}"  
>> to insert the pattern to search for). Could you help me improve on  
>> this?
>
> (defun project-rgrep (regexp)
>  "Run `rgrep' with REGEXP, \"*.cpp\" FILES, and \"somepath\" DIR."
>  (interactive
>   (progn
>     (grep-compute-defaults)
>     (list (grep-read-regexp))))
>  (rgrep regexp "*.cpp" "somepath"))
>
> -- 
> Kevin Rodgers
> Denver, Colorado, USA


Wonderful - exactly what I had hoped for!

Thanks,
  Stefan
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