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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 44983@debbugs.gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support
Subject: bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:09:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5f80bb1-f8a5-b4ff-cfc6-f8634d52ce1e@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835z54cqk3.fsf@gnu.org>

On 14.12.2020 18:15, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>> 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.

Perhaps a better option would be to take advantage of the 'transient' 
package (currently in GNU ELPA, but unreleased). Here's an example of 
its UI (bottom window):

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/f87497aec74dd0efee4ef78ba2b33b24d5535446b5d5cbef768653f4b945c38c/687474703a2f2f726561646d652e656d6163736169722e6d652f7472616e7369656e742e706e67





  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-14 20:09 UTC|newest]

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
2020-12-14 20:09                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
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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