Subject: Re: bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 05:36:57 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:10:13 +0200
> 
> This is part of efforts to develop
> project-find-regexp as a replacement of rgrep.  The previous task was
> to remove duplicate output lines that is successfully completed now.
> The next tasks are support for multi-line search strings, word search, etc.
> Bringing keybindings of project-find-regexp closer to grep mode is one
> of such tasks that will help the users to adapt grep usage patterns to
> project-find-regexp and other grep-like xref commands.

Why does project-find-regexp need to use Xref for displaying the hits?
why not use Grep-like display we use in *grep* buffers?