GNU bug report logs - #1863
Improved grep prompt

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Message #42 received at 1863 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: jidanni <at> jidanni.org, 1863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1863: Improved grep prompt
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:55:04 +0100

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> wrote:
>>> JL> It already says that.
>>> JL> `C-h f grep RET':
>>> But nobody would look there often. All I know is I took the Tutorial
>>> in the 80's and would never know about the two new greps unless
>>> alerted somehow.
>>
>> 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?

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