Re: Proposed alias.

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an séú lá is fiche de mí Feabhra, scríobh Romain Francoise: 

 > David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > > The name "grep-find" is quite counterintuitive and probably only
 > > chosen because it is in the grep package, and so the "grep-" prefix
 > > somewhat suggested itself.
 > 
 > It's not counterintuitive.  It's an extension to `grep', but it uses
 > find to find files recursively.  Once you're used to M-x grep RET, using
 > M-x grep-find RET comes naturally.

And if you’re used to

  find . -type f -exec grep -nH whatever {} \; 

in the shell, M-x grep-find RET seems totally alien. IMO, of course. 

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