Confused about flag `--print-long-lines`: long lines seem to be printed by default? But can't turn that behavior *off* or modify it? (like `--print-long-lines=false` or `--print-long-lines=200` or something?)
dwawlyn opened this issue · comments
Hi, I'm confused about the flag --print-long-lines
.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something more fundamental about how you're supposed to use it,
it seems broken to me?
The manpage/help just says:
--print-long-lines Print matches on very long lines (Default: >2k characters)
But for me, long lines are printed by default,
and I can't find any way to turn that behavior off (or adjust it),
trying things like:
--print-long-lines false
--print-long-lines=false
--print-long-lines=no
--print-long-lines 100
--print-long-lines=100
(I made sure I didn't accidentally have ag
wrapped in an alias that already included the flag or something ; my ag
is indeed just plain /usr/bin/ag
.)
Like, I just set up a test like this [(looks weird cuz fishshell)]:
$
for n in 2 20 200 2000 2200
echo "$(string repeat -n (math "$n-1") "_")x" > file_$n.txt
end
(
such that
$
cat *
#=>
_x
___________________x
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________x
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________x
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________x
)
and then both
$
ag x
and
$
ag x --print-long-lines
get exactly the same result
#=>
file_2.txt 1:_x file_20.txt 1:___________________x file_200.txt 1:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________x file_2000.txt 1:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________x file_2200.txt 1:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________x
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I actually passed that through pty and aha to try to keep the formatting/colors the same as you actually see when using it interactively
like:
$
pty ag x|aha -n -b
and then tried putting the output of that in <pre></pre>
tags,
but of course that doesn't actually display the colors here...
I'm not sure how to get the colors to actually show up in a github comment,
if that's even possible(?),
but yeah,
the above block is actually underlyingly:
<pre>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:lime;">file_2.txt</span>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:yellow;">1</span>:_<span style="color:dimgray;background-color:yellow;">x</span>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:lime;">file_20.txt</span>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:yellow;">1</span>:___________________<span style="color:dimgray;background-color:yellow;">x</span>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:lime;">file_200.txt</span>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:yellow;">1</span>:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<span style="color:dimgray;background-color:yellow;">x</span>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:lime;">file_2000.txt</span>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:yellow;">1</span>:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<span style="color:dimgray;background-color:yellow;">x</span>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:lime;">file_2200.txt</span>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:yellow;">1</span>:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<span style="color:dimgray;background-color:yellow;">x</span>
</pre>
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Actually, now that I'm thinking about it,
maybe a feature request:
expand the "before/after/context" flags so they can also take number of characters before/after?
(Right now, they only take lines.)