Re: [PATCH 0/4] grep: add more information to hunk separators

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René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Human readers can differentiate between contents and heading by color;
> separators are cyan by default.

OK.

> A separate frontend would probably have to implement match
> highlighting again.  That's not too hard, but a bit sad.

Yeah, but at the same time, a separate front-end could do a lot more than
just grep.  Letting the user pick a function name from the current output
and run grep again, letting the user highlight the line range and run
blame (or "Linus's ultimate content tracking tool"), etc.

> ...  But I think the idea to deduplicate the meta-information and give
> found content more screen real estate is a good one in general.

Yeah, I found the "sound of one hand clapping" in your other message
somewhat intriguing ;-).
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