lspitzner / lspitzner/hxtools

hxbrief: Allow dropping lines that match some pattern

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Description

Currently consecutive lines can be merged if they follow the same pattern, but that does not help you when with an "abababab" case where distinct lines (not matching a common pattern) are spammed, when you don't want throw the wildcard "*" pattern at it which may then hide other interesting stuff.

So it would be useful to exclude specific patterns without needing to glob everything (which hides potentially interesting lines!)

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No file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating hxbrief's entry point and its existing consecutive-line pattern-merging logic, then determine how exclusions should be expressed and verify that selected patterns can be dropped without wildcard suppression hiding unrelated lines, including the described abababab case.

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Assessment

Tech stack
haskell
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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