From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Highlighting in grep buffer Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:46:07 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87hdvvhzgh.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081551328 16908 80.91.224.253 (9 Apr 2004 22:55:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 10 00:55:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BC4u8-0005km-00 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 00:55:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BC4u8-0003WD-00 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 00:55:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BC4t1-0006GT-0G for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BC4mG-0002nF-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BC4lE-0001yI-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:46:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BC4lD-0001wk-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:46:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BC4lD-0005Tt-0P; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:46:07 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87hdvvhzgh.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:21:18 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21415 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21415 Isn't something like this a simpler and more reliable solution? It is quite simple, but I can't understand it at all. It needs comments to explain what GREP_COLOR means and what that value means and why. It may be less reliable, in that it may not work with non-GNU grep programs. Perhaps that is ok; people should install GNU grep.