Subject: Re: bug#8084: 24.0.50; Grep output not usable in Ubuntu

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:44:19 -0500

> So this is all user error, I think.

No.

> Or should M-x grep work if you have font locking switched off?

Yes.

> It's not only that the output of M-x grep is unreadable, but
> `next-error' doesn't work the first time, either.

grep.el's treatment of color-escape-sequences should be moved to
a process-filter.  I do not have time to work on this, right now, so
if someone else could take care of it, that would be great.

> (The second and subsequent times it does work.)

No idea why that would happen.

        Stefan