GNU bug report logs - #46859
28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add option to truncate long lines in xref.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 20:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 46859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 46859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46859: 28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add option to truncate long lines in
 xref.el
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 14:47:05 +0200

On 03.03.2021 11:52, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> Actually, it is possible to truncate output with GNU grep:
> 
> grep -oE '.{0,100}PATTERN.{0,100}'
> 
> prints at most 100 characters before and after PATTERN.  I find this 
> much better than ripgrep -M.

I'm not sure how to parse that output (it would be quite different from 
what we get now), and if the one-long-line file has many matches inside, 
we'll still get them all, which we might or might not want.
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