GNU bug report logs - #10864
kill output buffer on "no match"

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From: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: kill output buffer on "no match"
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:27:55 -0500

In GNU Emacs 24.0.93.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2012-02-20 on t520sds
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11004000
Configured using:
 `configure '--with-wide-int''

it would be nice if commands like grep, rgrep, find-dired et al killed
their output buffers when the search returned no matches, at least as an
option.


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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 10864 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: sds <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10864: kill output buffer on "no match"
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:50:56 -0700

Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org> writes:

> it would be nice if commands like grep, rgrep, find-dired et al killed
> their output buffers when the search returned no matches, at least as an
> option.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately have gotten no
responses yet.)

Hm...  I think that sounds like somewhat surprising behaviour, and my
feeling is that not many people would want this, so I'm closing this as
a "wontfix".

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