Re: [PATCH 5/6] builtin/grep.c: show column numbers via --column-number

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 21, 2018, 04:14 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4lk5b3ht.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:
>
>> This commit teaches 'git-grep(1)' a new option, '--column-number'. This
>> ...
>> +`columnnumber`;;
>> +	column number prefix (when using `-m`)
>
> Is there other people's tool (preferrably some variant of "grep")
> that has an option to tell it to show the column number of the hit?
> What is the option called there?  Does that tool let the option
> squat on short-and-sweet '-m'?
>
> Thanks.

I still do not know if we have a good existing model system to take the longer optoin name from, but at least, GNU grep seems to use -m to mean a completely different thing, so I'd think that we would not assign '-m' to this new feature.