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Bill Wohler |
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Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument] |
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Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:19:19 -0700 |
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[Reposting, without editing errors. :-(]
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Below is a patch which merges grep-tree into grep-find, with
>> the new grep-tree interface as the default API, while a C-u
>> prefix requests using the old grep-find interface.
>>
>> That makes it an incompatible change.
>
> Yes, intendedly so.
>
>> grep-find has existed since years ago; grep-tree is new.
>>
>> We could avoid that incompatible change by making grep-find
>> with C-u implement the grep-tree behavior.
>>
>> Is there some specific reason you propose the incompatible way?
>
> It's the more beginner-friendly version. The old variant is the
> "specialist" version which you'd use if you need full control. Using
> C-u to demand the easier variant seems like a backward way of using a
> prefix argument. The price is an incompatibility in the default user
> interface to previous versions. Personally, I consider it an
> improvement.
I agree completely. Since we're bumping the major version number, there
isn't a reason not to allow improvements such as this.
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- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], (continued)
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Eli Zaretskii, 2006/04/20
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/21
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Magnus Henoch, 2006/04/21
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Stefan Monnier, 2006/04/21
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/21
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Stefan Monnier, 2006/04/21
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/21
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Richard Stallman, 2006/04/22
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], David Kastrup, 2006/04/22
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Bill Wohler, 2006/04/23
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument],
Bill Wohler <=
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/22
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Richard Stallman, 2006/04/23
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], David Kastrup, 2006/04/23
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Richard Stallman, 2006/04/24
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], David Kastrup, 2006/04/24
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Richard Stallman, 2006/04/25
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/24
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/24
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Richard Stallman, 2006/04/25
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/24