Subject: bug#49208: 28.0.50; project-find-regexp's xref-mode result buffer is not editable

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:04:58 +0200

"Christian Tietze" <[email-masked]> writes:

> TL;DR: The `xref-mode' results of `project-find-regexp' are not editable. Something like `occur-edit-mode' is missing. 
>
> 1) Open a project via C-x p p
> 2) Select 'g' to find in project (project-find-regexp)
> 3) Search for a phrase that produces results
> 4) In the resulting Xref buffer, try to edit the results

Like grep, occur and many other similar commands, xref-mode is a
special-mode buffer, and those buffers seldom allow any sort of
editing.  But if you want to, you can hit `C-x C-q' and then edit
however much you want (in any of these modes).

So I'm not sure I quite understand the feature request.

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