Re: grep error because of bad previous input

[Sam Steingold]

> * Chong Yidong <address@hidden> [2006-07-27 13:51:00 -0400]:
>
> Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>>  of 2006-07-24 on quant8
>>
>> M-x grep RET
>> foo *.lis[ RET                     ;; typo: "[" instead of "p"
>> M-x grep RET
>>
>> ==>
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range "*.lis[" 6)
>>   wildcard-to-regexp("*.lis[")
>
> I can't reproduce this.

(setq grep-history '("grep -nH -e compute-discriminating-function *.lis["))
(let ((buffer-file-name "foo"))
  (grep-default-command))

i.e.,
1. last grep command must have a regexp-like wildcard for filenames
2. the current buffer must be named.

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