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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: 6553@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6553: M-x grep should encourage the user to remember to add filenames to the command line
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:31:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqk4pdspkd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eifm6s5d.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Fri\, 02 Jul 2010 19\:26\:54 +0800")

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> M-x grep, instead of prompting like:
>   Run grep (like this): zgrep -nH -e
> should prompt like:
>   Run grep (like this): zgrep -nH -e    *
> with the cursor placed                ^here.
> That way the user won't need to remember to add the *, which he usually
> wants, but always forgets, as I recall I mentioned a few years back.

IMHO we should just encourage users to use lgrep/rgrep/rzgrep, the UI is much better.





  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-02 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-02 11:26 bug#6553: M-x grep should encourage the user to remember to add filenames to the command line jidanni
2010-07-02 18:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2010-07-03  0:38 ` jidanni
2010-07-03  1:11   ` Lennart Borgman

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