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Improved grep prompt

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Message #69 received at 1863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 1863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#1863: Improved grep prompt
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:12:19 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:

>> Regarding M-x grep, here are the current and improved prompts:
>> Run grep (like this): grep -nH -e
>> Run grep (like this): grep -nH -e [Cursor goes here] * <--and an asterisk here. I.e., @=cursor:
>> Run grep (like this): grep -nH -e @ *
>> If you use my improved prompt suggestion above, no longer will
>> everybody forget to add a filename, and leave thinking "no matches found".
>
> Everybody's using rgrep and lgrep these days and never forget a filename ;-)

It seemed like nobody were enthusiastic about adding such a fix, so I'm
closing this as a "wontfix".

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