From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rgrep with (some) fixed parameters Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:23:46 -0600 Message-ID: References: <0F8F98AB-AC87-4968-8CCE-5EFF06E4B2A2@nf.mpg.de> <2FCE9852-1D8D-4465-80E6-D8AB8E3A52FF@nf.mpg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212848687 25161 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 14:24:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:24:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 16:25:30 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 1K4zMH-00006H-Cg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:25:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4zLU-00015H-EL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4zKp-0000gN-8Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4zKo-0000ec-1P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36805 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4zKn-0000eQ-Pw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:57 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42671 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4zKn-0006x7-B3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K4zKi-0001yh-H1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:23:52 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.29.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:23:52 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:23:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) In-Reply-To: <2FCE9852-1D8D-4465-80E6-D8AB8E3A52FF@nf.mpg.de> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:54579 Archived-At: 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