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

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Message #80 received at 46859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: 46859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#46859: 28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add option to truncate long lines
 in xref.el
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:52:22 +0200

>> OK, so we get the byte offset, but not the length of the match (which
>> we'll also need later, for purposes such as highlighting and
>> replacement). And what happens if there are several matches on the same
>> line? We need columns for all of them.
>
> I don't know exactly what you want to do, I initially chimed in this
> conversation to react to Juri's "GNU grep has no option to truncate
> output", to mention that GNU grep does have an option to do this; perhaps
> it doesn't do exactly what you want.

By an option I meant a command line switch of GNU grep,
not something that looks like a hack.

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