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Defaults for grep interface

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From: Jon Strait <jstrait <at> moonloop.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#5282: Defaults for grep interface
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:22:28 +0100

Many things here are inconsistent in the grep interface. 

The interactive lgrep and rgrep commands have a default using the basic 
RE format, while the grep command's default uses an extended RE format. 

The lgrep command's doc string says that given two 'C-u' prefixes, you 
can edit and directly run 'grep-command', (shouldn't this really be 
'grep-template' ?)  This didn't seem to really work at all, but if it 
did, how would it be different than using the interactive 'grep' directly?

The default grep-find-template (for rgrep) doesn't use the  required <D> 
place holder at all, and then rgrep changes into the 'base directory' 
before running the command in the context of the current directory, per 
the default grep-find-template.

GNU Emacs 23.1.1

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jon Strait <jstrait <at> moonloop.net>
Cc: 5282 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5282: Defaults for grep interface
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:24:46 +0200

Jon Strait <jstrait <at> moonloop.net> writes:

> Many things here are inconsistent in the grep interface. The
> interactive lgrep and rgrep commands have a default using the basic RE
> format, while the grep command's default uses an extended RE
> format.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got no response at
the time.)

Looking at this in Emacs 28, as far as I can tell, all these commands
default to using the same basic/extended settings now, but I may be
looking at the wrong thing here.  Are you still seeing these issues in
recent Emacs versions?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jon Strait <jstrait <at> moonloop.net>
Cc: 5282 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5282: Defaults for grep interface
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:41:44 +0200

Jon Strait <jstrait <at> moonloop.net> writes:

> I quit using Emacs and Lisp years ago.

OK; closing this bug report, then.

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