tags 7378 + patch
quit

>> The only way to do this reliably with GNU grep is to ask it to output
>> escape sequences around file names and line numbers.

> Feel free to try, but not for 24.1.  And please try and quantify the
> performance impact (if any), because M-x grep is already too slow.

GNU grep also supports --null to output NUL bytes following file names,
I haven't measured but it should be no slower and possibly faster since
the regexp is simpler.  There is a bit of added complexity to still
support other greps which don't have --null: