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Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument]
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument] |
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Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:02:38 +0200 |
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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. 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.
The old grep-find interface is "a hack" (a way to
start a compile-like command which runs find | grep.
>
> Is there some specific reason you propose the incompatible way?
IMO, the grep-tree API is better (higher-level, non-technical) than the old
interface (low-level, technical, requires knowledge in shell command syntax).
Techinical users which prefers the old interface can just customize
grep-find-prompt-style.
But I really think that even technical users will prefer the new
interface. It's much simpler to use, doing the same job in most cases
-- and it automatically skips CVS subdirectories (and other VC-related
directories when I get around to adding them) which makes good sense.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], (continued)
- 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, 2006/04/23
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument],
Kim F. Storm <=
- 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
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Miles Bader, 2006/04/24