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Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument]
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument] |
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Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:44:58 +0300 |
> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:02:44 +0200
> Cc: Magnus Henoch <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Since M-x grep does not do this, I am not sure it is desirable
> > to make M-x grep-tree incompatible with it. But I don't use
> > grep-tree. What do others think?
>
> M-x grep prompts for the entire command line, so the user can easily
> add the necessary quoting of the regexp.
How easily is that is not very important in this case, IMO. What is
important is that "M-x grep" prompts for _a_shell_command_, and the
user should type there a command that she would type at a shell's
prompt. Which means the _user_ is responsible for any quoting that's
required, especially since "M-x grep" has no real understanding of the
command's semantics; it is just reading a string that it will pass to
Grep.
> M-x grep-tree prompts individually for the regexp, files, and directory,
> so I think it makes good sense to quote the regexp automatically.
In this case, grep-tree does know what is the semantics of each part
of the command, since it prompts for them individually. So I agree.
Btw, isn't it confusing that we have no less than 3 different commands
(find-grep-dired, grep-find, and grep-tree) to do the same job?
- address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Richard Stallman, 2006/04/18
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/18
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument],
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Eric Hanchrow, 2006/04/18
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Lennart Borgman, 2006/04/18
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/19
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Romain Francoise, 2006/04/19
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Eli Zaretskii, 2006/04/19
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/19
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], David Kastrup, 2006/04/19
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Kim F. Storm, 2006/04/19
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], David Kastrup, 2006/04/19
- Re: address@hidden: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument], Richard Stallman, 2006/04/19