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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output |
Date: | Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:09:34 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 |
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
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