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Frank
Frank

Reputation: 433

Find-dired: Mini-Buffer prompts "Run find in dir" instead of "Run find (with args)"

I'm following a tutorial on searching and finding in emacs. (I'm running it on windows.)

The guy types: Find-dired while in Mini-Buffer. As a consequence the Mini-Buffer prompts: Run find in directory. Thus far I get the same result.

But then he types something to get the Mini-Buffer prompt Run find (with args) and I don't know what he typed to get this result.

Does anybody know how to get Run find (with args) after typing Find-dired?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 92

Answers (1)

Drew
Drew

Reputation: 30701

Uh, that's just what find-dired does. First it prompts you for a directory, and then it prompts you for the find command arguments:

(interactive (list (read-directory-name "Run find in directory: " nil "" t)
                   (read-string "Run find (with args): " find-args '(find-args-history . 1))))

C-h f find-dired tells you what the command does and what its arguments are. It tells you that there are two arguments: a directory and the arguments to pass to command find.

find-dired is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in
‘find-dired.el’.

(find-dired DIR ARGS)

Run ‘find’ and go into Dired mode on a buffer of the output.
The command run (after changing into DIR) is essentially

find . \( ARGS \) -ls

except that the car of the variable ‘find-ls-option’ specifies what to
use in place of "-ls" as the final argument.

Upvotes: 1

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