[ I first posted this report to comp.emacs.xemacs on 5 September 2002 <87ptvs74tf.fsf(a)harris.sdo.us.ray.com&gt;1. The topic came up again in comp.emacs.xemacs on 15 January 2003 <87hecaxbg8.fsf(a)ilovespam.net&gt;2, so a real bug report follows. ] The most recent igrep package behaves differently when using `igrep-find', making it difficult to search for files in any directory but the current one. My previous version of igrep prompted for a file pattern by offering the buffer's current working directory followed by a sensible wildcard: ,----[ Old `igrep-find' prompt ] | egrep File(s): ~/src/foo/bar/baz/* `---- With this, I could easily back up a few directories or edit the path in any way. It was easy to search in a directory distant from the current buffer's directory. The new prompt comes up with a nice default wildcard, but omits the directory: ,----[ New `igrep-find' prompt ] | [find] egrep File(s) [default: *.cpp]: `---- I know that I can then start typing "../../" and tabbing around, but I can't figure out how to get the directory back into the default prompt. By default, the igrep uses the function `igrep-files-default' (bound to `igrep-buffer-file-name-pattern') to build the file prompt. I don't see a similar function to restore the old behavior. * * * For the record, trying to search within, say, "~/src/" fails due to `shell-quote-argument' around line 812 in igrep.el: ,----[ (igrep-find "egrep" "foo" '("~/src/*") nil) ] | cd /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/igrep/ | find \~/src -type d \( -name RCS -o -name CVS -o -name SCCS \) -prune -o -type f \! -name \*\~ \! -name \*\,v \! -name s.\* -print0 | xargs -0 -e egrep -n -e foo /dev/null | find: ~/src: No such file or directory | | igrep exited abnormally with code 123 at Thu Sep 5 09:47:11 `---- Footnotes: ¹ http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=87ptvs74tf.fsf%40harris.sdo.us.ra... ² http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=87hecaxbg8.fsf%40ilovespam.net  ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 TSUNAMI 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown ./configure '--with-dragndrop' '--with-postgresql=no' '--with-x=no' '--bindir=/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin' '--with-site-lisp=yes' '--with-ipv6-cname=no' '--with-netinstall' XEmacs 21.4.9 "Informed Management (Windows [3])" configured for `i686-pc-cygwin'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /development/xemacs/xemacs-21.4-release Installation prefix: /usr/local Operating system description file: `s/cygwin32.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -I/usr/lib/../include/noX -I/usr/lib/../include/noX -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes Window System: Compiling in support for the Microsoft window system. Using MS-Windows menubars. Using MS-Windows scrollbars. Using MS-Windows dialog boxes. Using MS-Windows native widgets. Compiling in support for Drag'n'Drop (EXPERIMENTAL). - Drag'n'Drop prototype: msw. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for GNU DBM. Internationalization: Compiling in support for file coding. Mail: Compiling in support for POP mail retrieval. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. 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