bug#46859: 28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add option to truncate long lines in xref.el

[Theodor Thornhill]

Hi Juri,

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>>> But maybe your new option would be easier to customize.
>>
>> Yeah, maybe.  However, without benchmarking, it is quite clear that
>> adding your option is faster than my patch, since ripgrep has to search
>> the whole minified file.  I assume it short circuits, so that results
>> are delivered quicker to emacs.  Maybe this bug can be closed.
>
> Your new option is still necessary for the default case when
> 'xref-search-program' is 'grep' since GNU grep has no option
> to truncate output, so xref should do post-processing for grep.

Yeah, agreed

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Theo