I'm in Emacs! (Kinda...)

About a year ago I read Lars Ingrebritsen's blog post welcoming new Emacs developers, which gave step-by-step instructions on submitting Emacs patches, and decided to give it a go. I tackled bug #96, seven years old at that point, which asked for the grep commands to prompt to save buffers before running. A bit of digging around showed that there was a function ready for copy-pasta, so I submitted it. I got asked for a couple of improvements, which I'm ashamed to say I never submitted, and after a while it dropped off my radar.

Well, what do I find in my mailbox today but a note from Lars his own bad self saying that the patch had been committed (Github mirror; easier to link to than the official repo), along with the improvements requested. So, in a minor and somewhat undeserved way, I've added a small brick to that edifice of human knowledge, Emacs. (It would be possible for me to be more grandiose, but not easy.)