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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: commands to remove commented lines from grep output
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:43:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1I5vmE-0001fT-8U@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACMECECAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

    > It seems to me that a new grep option might be a better approach.

    Do you mean, for example, automatically tweaking the regexp supplied to
    grep, so that commented lines are not included?

I meant a new grep command line option to check for comments.
But maybe your approach is better, as long as it is extended
to handle multi-line comment syntaxes.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-04  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-02  6:10 commands to remove commented lines from grep output Drew Adams
2007-07-02 22:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-02 22:58   ` Drew Adams
2007-07-04  3:43     ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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