From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [dann@ics.uci.edu: grep fontification problem] Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 14:36:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878y2s6xxl.fsf@kali.intranet> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115490907 4289 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 18:35:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 18:35:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 20:35:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUU8G-0002qL-6o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 20:34:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUUGE-0006WF-Ah for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUUD7-0004vf-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUUD0-0004qW-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUUD0-0004pf-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUUGB-00058k-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DUU9v-00072C-Dx; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:36:15 -0400 Original-To: Marcelo Toledo In-reply-to: <878y2s6xxl.fsf@kali.intranet> (message from Marcelo Toledo on Fri, 06 May 2005 14:56:06 -0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36825 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36825 In 2004/04/05 we started a thread about highlighting grep buffer, the code mentioned there uses the ansi codes of grep and activates the `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. This solution is partially acceptable, will work for most of the users, but will fail for non GNU Grep, Do other grep versions do this highlighting at all? I cannot customize it in Emacs which is bad in my opinion because may not look good in all displays and every once grep changes their code, we have to make sure it will not break our solution and it will still be highlighting correctly. No, we don't have to do this. If GNU grep changes and breaks this, we just have to tell the grep maintainer is a bug. This solution is imperfect, but better than nothing. Does anyone have a better solution to suggest?