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25.0.50; grep-find-template has no <D> placeholder

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From: Kim Storm <storm <at> cua.dk>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>, 20719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20719: 25.0.50; grep-find-template has no <D> placeholder
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:11:36 +0200

On 2015-06-02 16:28, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> Originally, it was present in the computed value of grep-tree-template.
>
> But in the same commit that renamed it to grep-find-template 
> (2006-04-28, 0acfb7ce), "<D>" was replaced with ".".
>
> Kim, do you remember why? The commit message doesn't seem to provide 
> an adequate explanation.
>

I suppose it was because "rgrep" changes the default directory to the 
specified "dir" before
running the find command - so "." seems to be TRT (and makes the command 
shorter):

      (let ((default-directory dir))
        (compilation-start command 'grep-mode))

Kim

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