Re: grep /dev/null

[Kevin Rodgers]

Karl Chen wrote:
> I think it would be useful if such grep invocations terminate
> immediately.  One easy way would be to always append " /dev/null
> (i.e. grep-use-null-device) or " </dev/null".  In fact, it might
> be a good idea to add an optional flag to start-process so that
> `compilation-start' can reliably pipe from null by default.

I don't understand: `M-x grep' does append null-device to the command
line (unless it's been set to nil).

With respect to compile, I posted a patch back in October 1996 that
defines a new variable (compile-disable-input) and sends an EOF to the
compilation process if it is non-nil (which it is, by default).  I also
posted a compilation-mode-hook function (compile-enable-input) that
allows the user to run compilations that require input by emulating
comint-mode in the *compilation* buffer.

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Kevin Rodgers