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Re: Add lgrep/rgrep commands to Edit > Search submenu


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: Add lgrep/rgrep commands to Edit > Search submenu
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:40:37 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>>   > Nice idea:
>>   >
>>   > M-g l => lgrep
>>   > M-g r => rgrep
>>
>> These are nice
>>
>>   > M-g f -> grep-find
>>   > M-g e -> grep
>>
>> But these don't seem very useful for most users given the 2 above, if
>> the user really really knows he wants to use these, they know how to do
>> their own bindings.  And we don't want to spend to use too many key
>> bindings for "grep" related things, there might be other useful things
>> to bind.
>
> I agree, we should keep more key prefixes for other useful things.
> So we can use only one prefix `M-g r' for all grep commands:
>
> M-g r e         grep
> M-g r l         lgrep
> M-g r r         rgrep
> M-g r f         grep-find

Those are only marginally shorter than M-x gr RET, M-x lg RET, M-x rg RET

I think we should leave this alone ....  Users can bind them as they like.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk





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