Re: Problem with grep in Emacs 23.2

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Use customize to set the needed values, for example:

  M-x customize RET grep-use-null-device RET


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Shenli Zhu <zhushenli2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Lennart, how to skip grep-probe/grep-compute-defaults (add hook or
> change variable)?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Shenli Zhu <zhushenli2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Peter,
>> >
>> > Do you mean the grep-command I set should be runnable in shell? I just
>> > use
>> > grep-command to store the grep template, so it cannot be run in shell.
>> >
>> > Why we need probe-grep? To test whether grep exists and whether its
>> > function
>> > works correctly? Can I skip it?
>>
>>
>> probe-grep tries to find out what grep program you actually use and
>> what it can do. So, yes, you can skip it if you know what the program
>> can do.
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