Re: grep: default file if -r is used

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:40:00AM +0200, Koblinger Egmont wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> 
> > And we would have to teach people to use GREP_OPTIONS=-drecurse
> > insted of GREP_OPTIONS=-r .
> >
> > But I beleive this solution would be too complicated to be worth it.
> 
> I guess it is worth it, since it has to be coded once and then the env var
> has to be set once, and it's going to continuously make my life easier.

Sure, it's easy to _code_ it.  I meant it's not worth the fuss of having
long, complicated manual and of breaking backward compatibility of
GREP_OPTIONS=-r

> If a patch will most likely be accepted, please tell me and I'll create a

I am sorry that it causes you inconvenience, but I'm currently strongly
aginst such a kludge.

I'm not happy with any of the proposals, I believe each of them would bring
complication to some people.  The current way, it's at least consistent.

Regards,
        Stepan Kasal