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bug#21754: 25.0.50; doc of `grep' - no description of how to call it: CO
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#21754: 25.0.50; doc of `grep' - no description of how to call it: COMMAND-ARGS undefined |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:06:51 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 08:35:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
>
>
> Here is the entire doc string:
>
> (grep COMMAND-ARGS)
>
> Run grep, with user-specified args, and collect output in a buffer.
> While grep runs asynchronously, you can use C-x ` (M-x next-error),
> or RET in the *grep* buffer, to go to the lines where grep found
> matches. To kill the grep job before it finishes, type C-c C-k.
>
> For doing a recursive 'grep', see the 'rgrep' command. For running
> 'grep' in a specific directory, see 'lgrep'.
>
> This command uses a special history list for its COMMAND-ARGS, so you
> can easily repeat a grep command.
>
> A prefix argument says to default the argument based upon the current
> tag the cursor is over, substituting it into the last grep command
> in the grep command history (or into 'grep-command' if that history
> list is empty).
>
> There is _zero_ information here about parameter COMMAND-ARGS.
Thanks, fixed.