Re: [External] : Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:36:22 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
    >> Cc: dmitry@gutov.dev, joaotavora@gmail.com, philipk@posteo.net,
    >> monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
    >> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:22:20 -0400
    >> 
    >> Occur and grep buffers are by default read-only (and there is a
    >> regression in that too

    Eli> It is only a "regression" if you still have your muscle memory from 20
    Eli> years ago, since it's when we started making the compilation-mode
    Eli> buffers read-opnly.

"C-x C-q" in an "occur" buffer still leaves some non-useful key
bindings around, like for "DEL". To usefully edit an "occur" buffer
you need to run `occur-edit-mode', bound to "e" by default. We could
fix that wart if we wanted to.

Robert
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