Long line matches

[macarthy]

HI there, when I have a match in a compressed JS file I end end with a very large amount of text in the quicklist, is it possible to break the line up into some smaller around the match?

Thanks

[epmatsw]

I imagine that this would need to be a change in ag itself. There's the context options for printing lines before and after a match, but no option for characters before/after a match.

[losingkeys]

I've been thinking about this too. I wonder if there's a location/quickfix list option list for this or if we can truncate the matches before they end up in those windows. Otherwise this might be an ag option too.

[Numkil]

You could potentially use the -o switch and a search string like this.
ag -o ".{0,20}Your search keyword here.{0,20}"
This will find the string you are looking for and limit the results ouput to 20 characters before and 20 characters behind.
You could construct the cmd variable while keeping this in mind and keep an copy of the original search term to fix highlighting the search word.

[Numkil]

I'm working on a small pull request to implement my solution, so that you guys can try it out.