Question

I do a lot of searching through hostile code-bases with grep and find in emacs.

I’d like to be able to stash the results of a grep including its context (ie base directory) and the results hyperlinks into the files, such that I can fire off a bunch of other grep calls, but still return to the earlier set of results if those results turned up nothing.

A similar feature for the *compile* buffer would be helpful too.

Answer 1

You don’t need to clone the buffer. Just rename the *grep* buffer with M-x rename-buffer. Then the next time you do a grep it will create a new *grep* buffer.