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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#46859: 28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add option to truncate long lines in xref.el |
Date: | Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:19:50 +0000 |
While you discuss all those possibilities, please be aware that byte offsets have one more problem: converting them to character offsets or columns might not be trivial, especially if the encoding of the file is not UTF-8. (Apologies if you already discussed this.)
We did not discuss this, thanks for pointing that out. Is this not easy to do with byte-to-position?What I would suggest is to use "grep -nbo '.\{0,50\}PATTERN.\{0,50\}'", to hide the byte position in the xref buffer, and when the user jumps to an occurrence to use something like (goto-char (byte-to-position (get-byte-position))). Does that make sense?
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