From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52815: Editable grep buffer Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:24:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <-A0G14QC69c60rBlKL90_BCjTD4WA8Gza7BCXaipOmLvsf7QqahA3fccjk9a2S_nYrYklM9z93VykcczMHUPEjcz8WAf1Nrz_b59t5GPEzA=@protonmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14326"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: laszlomail@protonmail.com, 52815@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 05:25:52 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n39UF-0003US-Ia for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:25:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41420 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39UE-0007Ka-J2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:25:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47866) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39TW-0007JE-1K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39TS-0007Zt-G9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n39TR-0001Z6-L5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:25:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 04:25:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 52815 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 52815-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B52815.16409246825982 (code B ref 52815); Fri, 31 Dec 2021 04:25:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 52815) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Dec 2021 04:24:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54923 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n39T7-0001YO-Rh for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:24:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46838) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n39T6-0001YA-CW for 52815@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=38596 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39T0-0006kZ-WC; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:24:35 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=+t87IQUuMfRD2CXarzS6Z8q/zGMcoYHbqjVjLyIRuPo=; b=N1w0lpsFWa5B 7KIl0teMedynvCneRZnreWuEWie7oCtx0okhehoCoUxkiL38GIVkCaEGQLmChM8F26RnOqUxYXeQu xBoZBW75cMiOoIRTrQlazk2UA4lP4Xg7juQIA5Pp/xyBikUEl2k3myXFjABWI229cE1WbjKqWg/WY kbgktWQ5+b7OS6cuLNkumlrm5eUxPG8Y35al0QCl7fF/ttcKvXqX6WJmfNLkcLy2btM8zMX9oxzs5 RspHy5uXQb0FONV93e9vHTbbcRSN8RIs15UX7crGti2z+3y35TbKEykS+A3FAsWa1v6psmKRyZjz9 NbH7ajeNn56Z9YCNurxkeA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39T1-0004gn-6t; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:24:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 29 Dec 2021 12:51:59 -0800) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:223461 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Actually editing the text in the Grep mode buffer is a nuisance, since > > many self-inserting characters do unusual things. But that is a > > different issue. > This is the issue we are discussing here, as that is what wgrep does. > It works well in practice, analogous to how wdired works but it edits > multiple files. You enter wgrep-mode from grep-mode to make your edits > with `C-x C-q', edit the text of the buffer and then type `C-x C-s' to > save your changes to the relevant files. That makes sense. The original message didn't describe it clearly. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)