bug#2257: marked as done (23.0.90; grep-files-history has inappropriate default value)

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Your message dated Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:38:54 +0200
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and subject line Re: 23.0.90; grep-files-history has inappropriate default value
has caused the Emacs bug report #2257,
regarding 23.0.90; grep-files-history has inappropriate default value
to be marked as done.

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> 23.0.90; grep-files-history has inappropriate default value
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> Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:46:56 -0800
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> emacs -Q
> M-x load-library grep
> C-h v grep-files-history
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>  grep-files-history is a variable defined in `grep.el'.
>  Its value is ("ch" "el")
>  Documentation:
>  Not documented as a variable.
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> Besides the fact that there should be a doc string, the default value
> should be nil.  `grep' already DTRT to fill the history with
> appropriate default values for `M-n'. The default value of
> `grep-files-history' is used only when no appropriate default values
> are found.
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> And in that case, no default values should be available - it makes no
> sense to propose inappropriate values. There is no reason for the
> (first) default value to be proposed as [ch] in all cases - or in any
> cases where a .c or .h file is not expected. Better for Emacs to
> simply say that no default value is available.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2009-02-01 on SOFT-MJASON
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
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> Re: 23.0.90; grep-files-history has inappropriate default value
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> Date: 
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> Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:38:54 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
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> > emacs -Q
> > M-x load-library grep
> > C-h v grep-files-history
> > shows:
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> >  grep-files-history is a variable defined in `grep.el'.
> >  Its value is ("ch" "el")
> >  Documentation:
> >  Not documented as a variable.
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> > Besides the fact that there should be a doc string, the default value
> > should be nil.
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> Thanks for the bug report.  This is fixed by bug#4301.
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> -- 
> Juri Linkov
> http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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