From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 23:38:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] builtin/grep.c: add '--column' option to 'git-grep(1)'
Message-ID: <20180507233807.GB77370@syl.local>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BdJ0=gWZQVfSqy-vjtZVT4uZNzRaPYxRYxx2WNzaLodw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 08:15:03AM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 4:43 AM, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:
> > Teach 'git-grep(1)' a new option, '--column', to show the column
> > number of the first match on a non-context line.
>
> Why? Or put it another way, what is this option used for? Only
> git-jump? (which should also be mentioned here if true)

Good question. My primary intention is giving
'contrib/git-jump/git-jump' the information it needs in order to tell
$EDITOR how to seek to the relevant position within a line.

I have amended this patch to include the relevant bits, and will attach
in v5.


Thanks,
Taylor