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bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 22:17:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> > 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.
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"?
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, (continued)
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Jean Louis, 2020/12/09
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/10
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Jean Louis, 2020/12/10
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/12
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/13
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Jean Louis, 2020/12/13
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/14
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/14
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Jean Louis, 2020/12/13
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/24
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/24
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/08
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/08
bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/01