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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-11-12 07:03:48 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-11-12 07:03:48 +0200
commit49450d095120f98cc1a42f026fda86500d4ef744 (patch)
treebd0c3886b07cc2d686ba711df400f1e502953479 /lisp
parente286b3381fa1be64174832560da963b1c0191640 (diff)
downloademacs-49450d095120f98cc1a42f026fda86500d4ef744.tar.gz
* lisp/find-dired.el (find-grep-dired): Doc fix. (Bug#29262)
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/find-dired.el b/lisp/find-dired.el
index 2d2540b1330..3b0613b2806 100644
--- a/lisp/find-dired.el
+++ b/lisp/find-dired.el
@@ -255,14 +255,14 @@ See `find-name-arg' to customize the arguments."
(defalias 'lookfor-dired 'find-grep-dired)
;;;###autoload
(defun find-grep-dired (dir regexp)
- "Find files in DIR matching a regexp REGEXP and start Dired on output.
+ "Find files in DIR that contain matches for REGEXP and start Dired on output.
The command run (after changing into DIR) is
find . \\( -type f -exec `grep-program' `find-grep-options' \\
-e REGEXP {} \\; \\) -ls
-where the car of the variable `find-ls-option' specifies what to
-use in place of \"-ls\" as the final argument."
+where the first string in the value of the variable `find-ls-option'
+specifies what to use in place of \"-ls\" as the final argument."
;; Doc used to say "Thus ARG can also contain additional grep options."
;; i) Presumably ARG == REGEXP?
;; ii) No it can't have options, since it gets shell-quoted.