Agreed, that makes more sense.
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Thanks for the patch, but why not pass 1024 to `stdout_max_length` when spawn
is called to run programs displaying in the message window rather than add yet
another mysterious constant to _every_ call to spawn?
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(Thanks for all your replies to my issues @elextr - I know I've been posting a
lot and fixing nothing myself, but I have too many backlogged commitments right
now to start making pull requests.)
This patch resolves the problem, simply by matching the spawn API line limit to
the messaging
See comments
[here](https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/21b06d1e4bf18f2cab137ab08a976dbf14274d58/src/msgwindow.c#L458).
Fixes welcome.
Unfortunately the grep is not run in a shell, so piping to cut isn't possible.
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If long lines are matched (e.g. in binary or minified files) then 2 bad things
happen...
1) An internal buffer apparently crops each line, before the length of the line
grepping is wrapping to (apparently)
2) Subsequent lines which grep has wrapped then show on separate lines
The result is a
