bug#70820: [PATCH] Editable grep buffers

[Visuwesh]

[சனி மே 18, 2024] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: visuweshm@gmail.com,  70820@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 12:27:06 -0400
>> 
>> >> These are properties which the major mode (unconditionally) added, so it
>> >> doesn't seem unfriendly to remove them unconditionally when switching to
>> >> an unrelated major mode.
>> > Yes, but how does compilation-mode know the other major-mode is
>> > "unrelated"?  It could be very related, as this discussion
>> > demonstrates.
>> 
>> If it's related it has access to internals, so it can so things like
>> disabling `compilation--remoave-properties`.
>
> OK, so my suggestion to Visuwesh is the best way of dealing with this.
> Fine by me.

Sorry for the long delay.  I finally got the time to work on this
properly.  The attached patch uses a major-mode, akin to wdired-mode
like Stefan suggested in another message.  This side-steps previous
issues with buffer-local variables and compilation--remove-properties.
If this approach is okay, I will work on updating the documentation,
etc.

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