From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:15:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git.el: Add a git-grep command
Message-ID: <87wsox9wsu.fsf@lysator.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20080222073157.GA6630@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:

> On 2008-02-19 14:03:18 +0100, David Kågedal wrote:
>
>> This works for me, but before including it someone else should try
>> it. It might only work in Emacs 22, for instance.
>
> It works for me (also using emacs 22).
>
> I was a bit confused about the filename pattern selection, though: the
> promt suggested "ch", which, when I accepted it, was converted to
> "*.[ch]". However, manually specifying "*.c" works as well. I'm not
> sure if this is specific to your patch or something affecting all grep
> stuff in emacs (though I can't recall seeing it before).

This isn't invented by me, but is "standard" in the grep commands in
Emacs 22.  See the grep-files-aliases variable and the documentation
of rgrep.

-- 
David Kågedal