Flag order for trimmed line with max length

[misaki-web]

Is there a way to make ripgrep apply the --trim flag before reducing the line length with --max-columns-preview -M?

Here's an example of the current result (the string starts with 5 spaces):

$ echo "     0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | rg --trim --max-columns-preview -M 8 abc
012 [... 1 more match]

ripgrep reduces the line length, then it trims it. I expected the opposite, like this:

$ echo "     0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | rg --trim --max-columns-preview -M 8 abc
01234567 [... 1 more match]

[BurntSushi]

It does seem like --trim should just run before -M. I created an issue to investigate that: #2458. Ideally, we can just fix it to be more sensible. I do not want to get into the business of supporting arbitrary orderings of output format options.

I can't think of any work-around at present.