Re: M-x grep prompt: fill in the * for us

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> How about when prompting for M-x grep,
>     Run grep (like this): grep -n -e
> You instead prompt with
>     Run grep (like this): grep -n -e X *


Even better would be *.foo, where foo is the extension of the visited file.

> with the cursor placed where I've put the X
> because otherwise we often forget to fill in the *,
> which is often what we want.


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