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

Previous Next

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.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: 46859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46859: 28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add option to truncate long lines in xref.el
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 19:26:03 +0200

On 03.03.2021 19:11, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> I wrote too fast.  In fact you can get the column number with GNU grep 
> without parsing the original line:
> 
> grep -nb -oE '.{0,100}PATTERN.{0,100}'

This outputs byte offset from the beginning of the file, doesn't it?

Which will require at least reading the file into memory to convert.
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 89 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.