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: custom rgrep with multi dirs Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:26:21 -0600 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213680430 28676 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2008 05:27:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:27:10 +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 07:27:54 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 1K8TjP-00015g-Fu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:27:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Tib-0003Wd-44 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:26:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Ti4-0003W6-AG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Ti2-0003VY-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:26:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40943 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Ti2-0003VV-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37136 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 1K8Ti1-0007qe-TX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Ti0-0000HQ-79 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:26:20 +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 ; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:26:20 +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 ; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:26:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 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: <60b54c04-6aa9-4efe-8406-8566dfa07843@u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com> 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:54913 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > I have this function: > > (defun xah-find-word-usage (myword) > "Grep a dir for a word's usage." > (interactive "sWord to search: ") > ;;(require 'grep) > (rgrep myword "*\\.html" "~/web/p") > ) > > However, if i call if for the first time, i get > “grep-expand-template: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil”. > > 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