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bug#41766: Make it possible to change regexp to identify and highlight g


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#41766: Make it possible to change regexp to identify and highlight grep matches via customization
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:52:28 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> I now something to the manual, NEWS and changed the doc string + commit msg
> as advised. I decided on defcustom in the end because this way it is easy
> for the user to figure out what goes wrong in case he/she modifies
> grep-command and highlighting is missing. Hope that is fine.

In the long run what should be customizable is not escape sequences,
but a choice of the grep program with a list of such options:

  "GNU grep"
  "ripgrep"
  ...

i.e. the same customization as for the selection of the web browser
in browse-url.el.





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