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From: Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: grep-use-null-device
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:29:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tt4q9pq1z6.fsf@tiscali.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85vf26dygx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

David Kastrup writes:

> I think what rather should be done is that standard input on the
> grep process gets closed.  That requires no special options, and it
> will lead to a sensible result without obscure extra options.

This seems a rather clean solution.  Karl Chen pointed out that Kevin
Rodgers already posted such a patch to this list.  Here is the URL:

   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/33146

I'll try his patch out.

> grep-use-null-device is just for getting file names on matches, not
> for dealing with bad commands.

That was my confusion.  It saved me a lot of times as I forgot to
provide grep with filenames, so that for me it was its obvious purpose.
A nice hack indeed.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-16 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-15 15:41 grep-use-null-device Emilio Lopes
2005-08-16  2:25 ` grep-use-null-device Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-16 11:46   ` grep-use-null-device Karl Chen
2005-08-16 16:20     ` grep-use-null-device Emilio Lopes
2005-08-17  6:25       ` grep-use-null-device Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-20 12:22         ` grep-use-null-device Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-27  1:30           ` "^D^H^H" in process output on Darwin (Was Re: grep-use-null-device) YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2005-08-29 13:56             ` "^D^H^H" in process output on Darwin Stefan Monnier
2005-09-13  8:21             ` Nozomu Ando
2005-09-17  1:33               ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2005-08-29 22:43           ` grep-use-null-device Juri Linkov
2005-08-30 10:30             ` grep-use-null-device Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-31  2:31             ` grep-use-null-device Stefan Monnier
2005-08-31  6:02               ` grep-use-null-device Juri Linkov
2005-09-01 14:59                 ` grep-use-null-device Stefan Monnier
2005-09-01 16:16                   ` grep-use-null-device David Kastrup
2005-09-01 18:18                     ` grep-use-null-device Stefan Monnier
2005-09-03  1:43                     ` grep-use-null-device Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-16  7:15 ` grep-use-null-device Emilio Lopes
2005-08-16  9:26   ` grep-use-null-device David Kastrup
2005-08-16 16:29     ` Emilio Lopes [this message]
2005-08-16  9:45   ` grep-use-null-device Juri Linkov

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