Subject: Re: bug#60578: xref-query-replace-in-results doesn't replace truncated lines
From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
To: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:30:04 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

>> 1. (setq xref-search-program 'ripgrep)
>> 2. (setq xref-search-program-alist '((ripgrep .
>>       "xargs -0 rg <C> -M 200 --max-columns-preview --null -nH --no-heading --no-messages -g '!*/' -e <R>")))
>> where "-M 200 --max-columns-preview" is added to default settings.
>> Then 'C-x p g' shows matches on truncated lines before the text
>> "[... omitted end of long line]".
>> But 'r' (xref-query-replace-in-results) skips these matches
>> that are displayed on truncated lines.
>
> What if you remove "-M 200 --max-columns-preview" from the invocation
> arguments, and instead customize xref-truncation-width to whatever value
> you want? E.g. the same -- 200.
>
> Does replacement work then?

Thanks for suggestion, I used "-M 200" when even xref-truncation-width
was still quite slow, but now with long-line-optimizations there should
not be such problems anymore.  So closing.