On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 1:20 AM Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe> wrote:
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> Some additional context: I'm not asking for find-dired to support -maxdepth necessarily, but the way find-dired is structured makes it impossible to reuse any of the code to write a command that could support -maxdepth.
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> I attached a patch pulling most of the find-dired logic into a find-dired-unescaped function so that it can be readily reused.
I made a mistake in my initial analysis. find (at least the version I have) allows one to pass global options such as -maxdepth like so:
find . \( -maxdepth 3 ARGS \) -ls
However, find will print a warning message as this usage is not recommended.
Also, I realized that my previous patch, while functional, is awkward since it exists solely to allow users to specify global options
(based on the discussion on #27456, I believe all other find functionality should be possible with find-dired).
I have made a new patch adding an optional parameter to find-dired for passing such global options to find.
Aside: there is a discussion at #32668 about adding a similar command line editing feature like rgrep
I'm not fond of that as it is impossible to use programmatically and interacts poorly (read: not at all)
0001-find-dired-Add-global-args-to-find-dired.patch