hono4kami@piefed.social to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agoGreppability is an underrated code metricmorizbuesing.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarefool@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoGreppability also contributed to this thingy int main() { // dam } in Mozilla C-style and GNU C-style projects. Of course, it’s a remnant of the past (grep ^main), but kgmgaehgka.
minus-squarethingsiplay@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoFor code bases where this is a thing, you could use greps context lines: grep ---before-context 1 "^main"
minus-squareMadhuGururajan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agogrep -B should be more concise
Greppability also contributed to this thingy
int main() { // dam }in Mozilla C-style and GNU C-style projects. Of course, it’s a remnant of the past (
grep ^main), but kgmgaehgka.For code bases where this is a thing, you could use greps context lines:
grep ---before-context 1 "^main"grep -B should be more concise