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Editable grep buffer

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 52815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52815: Editable grep buffer
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 16:29:20 -0800

ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> Commands which produce a *grep* buffer (grep, grep-find) should allow
> the user to edit the results and apply them to the original locations
> like Occur does.
>
> There is the external package wgrep, but if Occur provides this, then
> the user logically expects that the similar *grep* results can also be
> edited in place out of the box.
>
> https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-wgrep

Agreed.

I think the best way to make any progress here is to acquire the
necessary copyright assigments for wgrep.el.  Then we could just include
that in core.

The alternative is to rewrite wgrep.el.

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