diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8648d27a3..aa30c9039 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2001-09-30  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
+
+	* configure.in: Don't check whether grep supports stdin - it's
+	not used anymore.
+	* NEWS: Mention this change.
+
 2001-09-19  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
 	* doc/mcedit.1.in: Fix a very long line - use double
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 24a3accd5..db2601718 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Yet to be released version 4.6.
 - Dropped support for the old Curses library.
 - Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit
 - New syntax rules - PHP.
+- File search with contents doesn't use external egrep.
 
 Version 4.5.55
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 321fb2b9f..d2bd58bf7 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -435,27 +435,6 @@ filel=$ac_cv_filel
 AC_MSG_RESULT([$filel])
 fi 
 
-dnl
-dnl Check to see if grep program allowes dash to denote stdin 
-dnl
-AC_MSG_CHECKING([for - option to grep command])
-AC_CACHE_VAL(ac_cv_grep_stdin, [
-    echo "grep_test" | grep grep_test - >/dev/null 2>&1
-    if test $? = 0; then
-	ac_cv_grep_stdin=yes
-    else
-	ac_cv_grep_stdin=no
-    fi
-])
-if test x$ac_cv_grep_stdin = xyes; then
-    AC_DEFINE(GREP_STDIN, 1, [Define if the grep command accepts - for stdin])
-fi
-AC_MSG_RESULT([$ac_cv_grep_stdin])
-
-dnl
-dnl The subshell support
-dnl
-
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for subshell support])
 AC_ARG_WITH(subshell,
 	[--with-subshell            If you want to use a concurrent shell],