From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: Tiny change to find-tag-default.
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:15:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMAEPACJAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3slkumweo.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>
> Suppose I'm looking at a text, and want to grep for a phrase
> (e.g. just two words) in that text, I highlight the text
> to search for
> (set mark, go to end of text) and do M-x lgrep. ...
> I don't think it makes sense to do this w/o transient-mark-mode,
> but that's why we have temporary transient-mark-mode marking.
>
> That behavior sounds good to me. What about doing the same for
> `grep' and the other similar commands?
If the change is made to find-tag-default, the change will apply to grep
and find-grep too.
Oh, I didn't see that; sorry. It didn't look like `grep' used it.
> OTOH, if done in `find-tag-default', this would also affect
> things like function-called-at-point and variable-at-point.
> I don't know if that would be a good feature or not.
At least it still gives predictable behavior (and in most cases
it doesn't matter,
as the find-tag-default is only used as a last resort fallback).
Right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-21 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-21 9:53 Tiny change to find-tag-default Kim F. Storm
2006-07-21 14:18 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-21 22:21 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-21 23:15 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2006-07-22 4:39 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-22 12:17 ` martin rudalics
2006-07-23 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-28 23:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-28 0:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-28 9:12 ` martin rudalics
2006-07-28 23:04 ` Kim F. Storm
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