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Re: grep command doc - point out that you can chain now


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: grep command doc - point out that you can chain now
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:59:50 +0300

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:28:36 -0700
> 
>     I don't think it should be pointed out in the manual because
>     you would expect it to work.  However it might be worth mentioning
>     it in NEWS, so that users who have tried it in the past know it
>     will now work.
> 
> I don't think it's obvious ("you would expect it to work"), since Emacs
> `grep' is asking for input to the Unix/GNU-Linux `grep' command.

IMHO, it should suffice to say that "M-x grep" expects _any_ shell
command whose output resembles that of Grep.  That includes, for
example, "find SOMETHING | xargs fgrep" etc.





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