Subject: bug#1863: Improved grep prompt

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:31:03 +0200

>>> In your case I myself see nothing that can help then ;-) but I think
>>> newbees would benefit from having all the search and replace commands
>>> under search and replace in the edit menu.
>>
>> I can't believe we still don't have these useful commands in the menu.
>> But why do you think they should be placed in the Edit menu?
>
> That is where the search and replace commands normally are. Why do you
> doubt they should be there?

The `Grep' menu entry is traditionally in the Tools menu because it reads
an external command like `Compile' and `Shell Command' do.  So perhaps we
should add `rgrep' and `lgrep' to the Tools menu.

A less controversial change is to add `rgrep' and `lgrep' to the
grep mode menu:

Index: lisp/progmodes/grep.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/grep.el,v
retrieving revision 1.98
diff -u -r1.98 grep.el
--- lisp/progmodes/grep.el	5 Jan 2009 03:23:37 -0000	1.98
+++ lisp/progmodes/grep.el	16 Jan 2009 00:27:48 -0000
@@ -204,12 +204,18 @@
     (define-key map [menu-bar grep compilation-compile]
       '(menu-item "Compile..." compile
 		  :help "Compile the program including the current buffer.  Default: run `make'"))
+    (define-key map [menu-bar grep compilation-lgrep]
+      '(menu-item "Local grep..." lgrep
+		  :help "User-friendly grep"))
+    (define-key map [menu-bar grep compilation-rgrep]
+      '(menu-item "Recursive grep..." rgrep
+		  :help "User-friendly recursive grep in directory tree"))
+    (define-key map [menu-bar grep compilation-grep-find]
+      '(menu-item "Grep via Find..." grep-find
+		  :help "Run grep via find, with user-specified args"))
     (define-key map [menu-bar grep compilation-grep]
       '(menu-item "Another grep..." grep
 		  :help "Run grep, with user-specified args, and collect output in a buffer."))
-    (define-key map [menu-bar grep compilation-grep-find]
-      '(menu-item "Recursive grep..." grep-find
-		  :help "Run grep via find, with user-specified args"))
     (define-key map [menu-bar grep compilation-recompile]
       '(menu-item "Repeat grep" recompile
 		  :help "Run grep again"))

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/