Re: find-name-dired and find-program variable

[Tino Calancha]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Cédric Chépied wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After a git pull on my emacs repo (master branch) I can't use find-name-dired
> anymore because the find-program variable is not defined.
Then you will have 2 definitions of `find-program', the other at
grep.el, as an alias of `grep-find-program'.
They are still discussing this recent change, so the situation can
still change.
In the meantime i work around the problem requiring 'grep in .emacs: 
(require 'grep)

Tino

> I wrote this patch to fix it.
> ---
> lisp/find-dired.el | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/find-dired.el b/lisp/find-dired.el
> index b1b33ac..49b9ac9 100644
> --- a/lisp/find-dired.el
> +++ b/lisp/find-dired.el
> @@ -34,6 +34,13 @@
>   :group 'dired
>   :prefix "find-")
>
> +(defcustom find-program
> +  "find"
> +  "Name of find command (usually 'find')"
> +  :version "24.1"
> +  :group 'find-dired
> +  :type 'string)
> +
> ;; FIXME this option does not really belong in this file, it's more general.
> ;; Eg cf some tests in grep.el.
> (defcustom find-exec-terminator
> --
> 2.8.0