GNU bug report logs - #30397
Random numbers in grep mode-line

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 21:39:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Random numbers in grep mode-line
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 23:32:51 +0200

What do these seemingly random numbers in the mode-line of the *grep*
buffer mean?  I don't get any logic behind these colored numbers.
They are neither the number of matches nor the number of matched lines.
And why non-zero numbers are always highlighted in red as errors
when there are no errors in the grep output?  What was the goal
of this feature and where it is documented?
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