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The -l and -L options display filenames based upon match patterns currently. The thing is they don't actually show the matches just the filenames where the matches took place. It would make more sense for there to be no restrictions requiring match parameters (denoted by the equal sign) when either of these options is passed to the program.

This change would involve rewriting some of the validation code for patterns and the grep function to allow printing when a match pattern doesn't exist.

I think it would be a good idea to add some sort of command that reruns the previous search or allows you to save it as a query as described in #1. This would be especially helpful when making long complicated queries. Editing wouldn't necessarily be an option but you should be able to open it in a text editor yourself even though it isn't in the application per se.

Since cgrep allows you to make queries using pattern files, the next logical step would be to have some way to bookmark common queries. This would require some new flag like --query=query-name. Behind the scenes I think this could just function the same way as the pattern files but instead of requiring the path they would just be stored in some common location by their query name.

Example

$ cgrep -q=latest-casks *.rb

There should also be some way to bookmark the previous query as well. (Usually you want to try the query first before deciding if it's worth saving.) Queries could also be imported from pattern files as well.