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24.5; M-x grep: can't add option after default option list

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

From: Benoit Coste <ben.coste <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; M-x grep: can't add option after default option list
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:21:10 +0100

Hi and thank you for supporting Emacs. It is cool that people do that
and I should get involved at some point.

It is not really a bug but an issue that has room for improvement.
When I type M-x grep, this is what I get.

Run grep (like this): grep --color -nH -e

If if try to add an option after the '-e', let's say '-R', Emacs thinks
the option is the pattern I am looking for instead of considering it as
an option.

In other words:
'grep --color -nH -e' with as following:
      ' -R foo bar' does not work. It fails to find the '-R' pattern.
      ' foo bar -R' works

If this has already been mentioned, then sorry for the inconvenience.
Cheers,
Benoit



In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2015-09-17 on lgw01-52, modified by Debian
System Description:	Ubuntu 15.10

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Quit [2 times]
Mark saved where search started [2 times]
Quit
Grep exited abnormally with code 2
Please answer yes or no.
Quit
Grep exited abnormally with code 2
Grep finished (matches found)
Quit
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Message #8 received at 22551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Benoit Coste <ben.coste <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22551: 24.5;
 M-x grep: can't add option after default option list
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 12:32:31 -0500

Benoit Coste wrote:

> When I type M-x grep, this is what I get.
>
> Run grep (like this): grep --color -nH -e
>
> If if try to add an option after the '-e', let's say '-R', Emacs thinks
> the option is the pattern I am looking for instead of considering it as
> an option.

We assume familiarity with grep options. The -e option of grep takes an
argument, namely the pattern to search for. You can either add your
option before the -e, or maybe you are interested in M-x rgrep.
I don't see this as an Emacs bug.

Message #13 received at 22551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, Benoit Coste <ben.coste <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#22551: 24.5; M-x grep: can't add option after default option
 list
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:35:04 -0800 (PST)

> We assume familiarity with grep options. The -e option of grep takes an
> argument, namely the pattern to search for. You can either add your
> option before the -e, or maybe you are interested in M-x rgrep.
> I don't see this as an Emacs bug.

aka `M-x man RET grep RET'

That shows:

grep  [OPTIONS]  [-e  PATTERN   |   -f   FILE]  [FILE...]

Message #16 received at 22551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Benoît Coste <ben.coste <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22551: 24.5;
 M-x grep: can't add option after default option list
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:46:02 +0000

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Oh, my bad. I though -e was an option not taking arguments.

Sorry for the noise.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:35 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:

> > We assume familiarity with grep options. The -e option of grep takes an
> > argument, namely the pattern to search for. You can either add your
> > option before the -e, or maybe you are interested in M-x rgrep.
> > I don't see this as an Emacs bug.
>
> aka `M-x man RET grep RET'
>
> That shows:
>
> grep  [OPTIONS]  [-e  PATTERN   |   -f   FILE]  [FILE...]
>

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