Re: junk in *grep* buffers

[Miles Bader]

On Apr 6, 2005 8:46 AM, Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've got a sneaky suspicion that something goes awry with the
> interaction between font-locking and the code in
> grep-mode-font-lock-keywords that removes the escape sequences.

That sounds likely.  The technique that grep.el uses (deleting
characters inside a font-lock expr) seems highly dodgy to me -- it
seems obvious that it will fail sometimes unless it's guaranteed that
the text to be matched only gets inserted in a controlled manner, and
there seems to be no attempt to do so.  [I suppose there may also be
some uncertainty due to the vagaries of jit-lock.]

It would seem much safer to do the translation of escape sequences to
text-properties in the process filter (maybe it could add a
`font-lock-face' property, so that the displayed result would honor
font-lock-mode).

-Miles
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