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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From: Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 46859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46859: 28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add option to truncate long lines in xref.el
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:14:43 +0100

Hi Juri,

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>>> But maybe your new option would be easier to customize.
>>
>> Yeah, maybe.  However, without benchmarking, it is quite clear that
>> adding your option is faster than my patch, since ripgrep has to search
>> the whole minified file.  I assume it short circuits, so that results
>> are delivered quicker to emacs.  Maybe this bug can be closed.
>
> Your new option is still necessary for the default case when
> 'xref-search-program' is 'grep' since GNU grep has no option
> to truncate output, so xref should do post-processing for grep.

Yeah, agreed

--
Theo
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