--print-long-lines is documented but not implemented

[dandavison]

I believe that --print-long-lines is not actually implemented, despite being documented in ag --help and man ag. There's a TODO comment in options.h indicating that it's not implemented. Should either implement or undocument.

I'd find it useful (was getting annoying hits from minified js files that lack the .min.js extension).

[amfarrell]

I too would like to be able to either filter out really long lines or to have that be the default and to be able to include them again.

[amfarrell]

One way to get around this is something like ag '.csv' | awk '{ if (length($0) < 2028) print }', but it removes ag's nice formatting.

[amfarrell]

One reason why this behavior would be useful is that often, one is using the silver searcher to look through a project that contains minified js alongside readable code. The user would prefer to omit the terminal-filling block of unreadable js from the results so they can focus on the readable code alongside it.

[amfarrell]

I've submitted #707 to fix this.

[AtomicNess123]

Would it be possible to specify how many characters before and after the match? This is ideal for, as mentioned above, prose text. Otherwise, one gets huge chunks of results which makes it troublesome to read. Thanks!