Re: M-x grep /dev/null embarrassment

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 
> Anyways, "lose the /dev/null hack and use a regular grep -switch to
> force filenames.  It's about time."

On my platform (SunOS 5.7/Solaris 7) there are no grep options that force
both the file name and matched text to be printed.  The /dev/null trick is
necessary when you specify a pattern that globs to a single file.

To run a pipe line via `M-x grep', just do this:

        (setq null-device nil)

Should that trick be documented somewhere?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>