Re: [PATCH 0/2] Teach 'git grep' about --open-files-in-pager=[<pager>]

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:48:41AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> This supports opening the results of a 'git grep' directly in a pager 
>>> (where the pager can be 'vi', too).
>>
>> This is not an argument against your patch, but you may be interested in
>> an alternate method:
>>
>>   git grep -n $pattern >grep.out
>>   vim -q grep.out
>>
>> The advantage is that the editor understands the output as a "quickfix"
>> list and lets you cycle through the hits (just like you might with
>> compiler errors). The disadvantage is that quickfix is a vim extension,
>> so "less" and stock "vi" can't do this (I imagine emacs has a similar
>> feature). It's also obviously a little more typing, but you can hide it
>> inside an alias quite easily.
>
> "M-x grep-find" mode is designed for this,

Do you mean "M-x grep" ? I don't see the point to use "M-x grep-find".

> and I often run "git grep -n" in that mode..

I always need to pass the '--no-pager' switch: "git --no-pager grep -n"
since git doesn't detect that its output is sent to a 'dumb' terminal.

-- 
Francis
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