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in helix, your grep tool often blows your context window,...#1780

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in helix, your grep tool often blows your context window,...#1780
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@lukemarsden lukemarsden commented Mar 1, 2026

Helix: in helix, your grep tool often blows your context window, i think because there is some line that is extremely long in some file, which contains common patterns of bytes. probably the zed grep tool limits by line count not byte count. can we either remove that long line from the codebase somehow, or fix zed to do a character limit on its built-in grep tool?

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Remove settings-sync-daemon binary from git
87c99c6 
This binary executable had lines up to 333K characters which was
blowing up the grep tool's context window. Binaries should not be
checked into git as text files.

Spec-Ref: helix-specs@330217d25:001410_in-helix-your-grep-tool
@lukemarsden lukemarsden merged commit 994b36a into main Mar 2, 2026
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