Re: Useless Local Variable in etc/grep.txt

[Juri Linkov]

>> Users may have code in .emacs that removes read-onlyness from the grep
>> output buffers.  This local variable overwrites this to remind that
>> editing etc/grep.txt will lose escape sequences.  With your latest change
>> in files.el, the local variable buffer-read-only will cause no trouble.
>
> Interesting: so we decided to remove those escape chars for the sake of
> copy&paste, but we'd want to keep them for save&reload.

I believe not many people would want to save the grep output to a file
with escape sequences.  etc/grep.txt is a special case for the demonstration
purpose.  When someone wants to save the grep output to a file, this is
possible with redirecting the output to the file on the command line of
`M-x grep', and visiting this file in read-only mode afterwards.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/