Fedora :: Bash Function Alias To Recursively Grep Current Directory?

This should be a simple thing to accomplish, but I can seem to figure it out. Essentially, I want to have a bash alias or function that will let me recursively grep the current directory. A while back I added this to my .bashrc:

Code:

alias rg="grep -r --exclude=*/.svn/* --exclude=*.swp"

This works fine, (and also ignores any svn and vim swp files), and I can call it like:

Code:

rg foo *

However, 99.999% of the time, I am only interested in searching in the current directory, so the "*" is a bit redundant. Also, I would say 5-10% of the time, I am typing faster than thinking and forget the "*", so grep just sits there trying to read from stdin. It's a pretty minor thing, but ideally I'd like to be able to just type:

Code:

rg foo

I've tried creating a function to handle this:

Code:

function rg(){
grep -r --exclude=*/.svn/* --exclude=*.swp $1 *
}

but it behaves exactly the same as the alias above. escaping the "*" with 's doesn't work, and neither does trying `pwd` (or even a hard-coded path) in its place.