From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: custom rgrep with multi dirs Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <1956fb53-9dc8-48fc-8a83-4b1104165661@a32g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <60b54c04-6aa9-4efe-8406-8566dfa07843@u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213688493 18063 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2008 07:41:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:41:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 17 09:42:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K8VpS-0002U7-M6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:42:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Voe-0002Du-EX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:41:20 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213685438 24872 127.0.0.1 (17 Jun 2008 06:50:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159563 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54916 Archived-At: > > I guess i need the (require 'grep) but that didn't help. Any hints? > > Just a guess: call grep-compute-defaults in your interactive form, > just like all the commands defined in grep.el. thank you. That's it. Xah On Jun 16, 10:26=A0pm, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Xah wrote: > > I have this function: > > > (defun xah-find-word-usage (myword) > > =A0 "Grep a dir for a word's usage." > > =A0 (interactive "sWord to search: ") > > =A0 ;;(require 'grep) > > =A0 (rgrep myword "*\\.html" "~/web/p") > > ) > > > However, if i call if for the first time, i get > > =93grep-expand-template: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil=94. > > > But if i have used rgrep before in this session, then it works. > > > I guess i need the (require 'grep) but that didn't help. Any hints? > > Just a guess: call grep-compute-defaults in your interactive form, > just like all the commands defined in grep.el. > > -- > Kevin Rodgers > Denver, Colorado, USA