From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 44983@debbugs.gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:15:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835z54cqk3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kkpcvfw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 13 Dec 2020 22:17:23 +0200)
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: bugs@gnu.support, 44983@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 22:17:23 +0200
>
> >> > In my opinion I believe that majority of users who ever clicked
> >> > "Search Files (grep)" gave up after few attempts.
> >>
> >> Indeed, "Search for files (grep)" menu option is not user friendly.
> >
> > In what way is it not user-friendly? It just invokes "M-x grep".
>
> It's not friendly for users who don't know syntax of grep command line.
If someone wants to add a more user-friendly dialog for searching text
(or perhaps reuse a dialog provided by the GUI toolkits), I think it
will be welcome. It is not a simple job, though, because the dialog
should allow access to most of the advanced features of Grep.
> OTOH, "Recursive grep" (rgrep) is easier to use, but its menu item text
> is not clear to users who don't know what is grep. Maybe a better title
> for 'rgrep' would be "Search text in files"?
FWIW, I don't think rgrep is significantly more user-friendly, so IMO
it is not the model on which to base a better UI.
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-01 8:45 bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output Juri Linkov
2020-12-01 15:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-01 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-01 16:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-12-01 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-01 20:35 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-02 3:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-02 9:35 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-02 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-02 20:53 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-03 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-03 16:30 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2020-12-03 21:17 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-05 19:47 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-06 20:39 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-06 21:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-06 21:54 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-07 2:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-08 19:41 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-09 3:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-09 19:17 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-09 20:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-10 8:18 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-10 20:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-09 21:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-10 8:06 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-10 10:08 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-12 20:42 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-13 10:57 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-13 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-13 15:37 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-13 20:17 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-14 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-12-14 20:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-24 20:33 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-24 23:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-08 5:35 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-08 19:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-29 11:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-29 12:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 9:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 9:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 10:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 11:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 16:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-30 9:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 9:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 10:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 11:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 11:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-29 17:15 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-30 0:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-01 17:14 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-01 20:34 ` Juri Linkov
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