GNU bug report logs - #22286
Similar to the google way of showing grep result

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 01:52:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Similar to the google way of showing grep result
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 04:56:42 -0600

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Grep by default show match result by lines. But in certain cases it would
be better to should show the context of the matches just like in google so
that users can easily check if a document is relevant or not. Is there any
tool like this?

-- 
Regards,
Peng



-- 
Regards,
Peng

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