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25.1.50; Wishlist: It would be nice if the grep buffer had a history

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22627: 25.1.50;
 Wishlist: It would be nice if the grep buffer had a history
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 19:41:32 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Unlike Web pages, Grep searches are not connected by any links, so
> traversing the history one buffer at a time will be frustrating and
> unnatural, when there are a lot of them.  By contrast, naming them
> uniquely will allow switching to the right one immediately.

That's true, so having an additional feature for multiple-buffer grep
commands would also be nice, but it's an orthogonal issue.  My common
use case is that I grep for "featurep 'xemacs", and then I grep for a
different function, and when I'm finished with that, I just want to
return to my previous search.  The `r'/`l' commands fit that perfectly.

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