GNU bug report logs - #20912
25.0.50; M-x grep no longer works

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 23:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Emacs bug reports and feature requests <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: 25.0.50; M-x grep no longer works
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:53:25 -0700

The recent commit 9b4b4a8355506a0253d8a4943e0a9aa87f9e92eb broke ordinary use of 
M-x grep.  To reproduce, start emacs -Q and type:

M-x grep RET foo /dev/null RET

The output will say:

grep -nH -e --color foo /dev/null
grep: foo: No such file or directory
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