Re: rgrep with (some) fixed parameters

[Kevin Rodgers]

Stefan Vollmar wrote:
> If I do the equivalent of a
>
> (setq grep-find-command "find somepath \\( -path \*/.svn \\) -prune -o 
> -type f \\( -iname \\*.cpp \\) -exec grep -nH -e  {} /dev/null \\;")
>
> in my .emacs file,
> C-u C-u M-x rgrep
> does indeed use this pattern (and does not ask about anything else, and 
> I could use a keyboard shortcut for this) - so far so good. However, I 
> feel that having to look at that long-ish command every time I use it, 
> is not elegant - in particular, as I need to navigate to the correct 
> position when the find command is being displayed in the minibuffer 
> (point should be between "-e" and "{}" to insert the pattern to search 
> for). Could you help me improve on this?

(defun project-rgrep (regexp)
  "Run `rgrep' with REGEXP, \"*.cpp\" FILES, and \"somepath\" DIR."
  (interactive
   (progn
     (grep-compute-defaults)
     (list (grep-read-regexp))))
  (rgrep regexp "*.cpp" "somepath"))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA