From: Remi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:39:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git.el: Add a git-grep command
Message-ID: <8763wfwjg6.dlv@maison.homelinux.org>
In-Reply-To: <200802230200.m1N202Y7007392@localhost.localdomain>

Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
>    Here is a modification with inclusion of git-grep only when the grep
>    library is available. 
>
>    +(require 'grep () t)
>
>    +(when (featurep 'grep)
>    +  (defvar git-grep-history nil)
>    +
>    +  (defun git-grep (regexp &optional files dir)
>
> Why not just do something like this ?
>
> (when (require 'grep () t)
>       (defvar ...)
>       (defun git-grep ...))

Because I wanted require to stay on top of the file, but I didn't want
to put the rest of the git-grep stuff there.

(the real reason is because I did not check in the doc for the return
value of require, and so I didn't knew that I could do that, but
still, I believe that my after the fact argument are good.)
-- 
Rémi Vanicat