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From: | Juri Linkov |
Subject: | bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output |
Date: | Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:42:13 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> I do not find it problematic. Grep is anyway kind of advanced tool. I > think that Emacs "Search for files (grep)" menu option is anyway not > user friendly. > ... > What would be more user friendly would be a form or wizard that would > specify if all files are to be searched or recursively, and what would > be the search term. That would degrade power of grep but it would be > more user friendly to many people. > > 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. This is why we added a wizard command "Recursive Grep..." under it in the same menu.
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