From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 18209@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18209: Add ability to truncate long grep matches
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:39:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmtiLXTu1MSFy-OJLKwWEV+b4jL50sFSWg+3MigDgNjVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdojgVmr+=MkfVvVJoMadn1gGC63r=n0aWc42BqbQYN+2zA@mail.gmail.com> (Reuben Thomas's message of "Wed, 6 Aug 2014 18:47:48 +0100")
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
> On 6 August 2014 18:44, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Reuben" == Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
>
> > In some files (e.g. in text files using newline as a paragraph delimiter)
> > one can get matches in very long lines that can occupy several screenfuls.
> > These are not always straightforward to avoid. There's no way to tell (GNU)
> > grep to truncate its output; perhaps Emacs could help here, by being able
> > to specify a maximum length of match to show? For bonus points, show part
> > of the line that matches, with ellipses, rather than just truncating the
> > line; but even without that it would be useful, provided that the
> > truncation is clearly marked: the annoyance and slowness of navigating
> > *grep* buffers full of enormous matches which are almost always not what
> > one is looking for would be great!
>
> FWIW, I have the following in my ~/.emacs:
>
> (defun sm-compilation-mode-hook ()
> (setq truncate-lines t))
> (add-hook 'compilation-mode-hook #'sm-compilation-mode-hook)
>
> That's ingenious, obvious, and thanks very muchious.
Did that resolve the problem, or is there anything more to do here?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-12 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-06 11:52 bug#18209: Add ability to truncate long grep matches Reuben Thomas
2014-08-06 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-06 17:47 ` Reuben Thomas
2020-08-12 18:39 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-08-12 18:43 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-12 18:50 ` Stefan Kangas
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