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bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:15:08 +0200 |
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: bugs@gnu.support, 44983@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 22:17:23 +0200
>
> >> > 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.
> 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"?
FWIW, I don't think rgrep is significantly more user-friendly, so IMO
it is not the model on which to base a better UI.
- 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, 2020/12/13
- bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- 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