Currently emerge -s or --search outputs a verbose list of ebuilds containing the given string. When the result contains more than a couple of matches, this creates a long list sometimes several pages in length, which is (slightly) awkward to peruse and costs the user a few extra seconds of his life. There should be another option to be used, perhaps -m or --minimal-output that reduces the list of matching ebuilds to something similar to that of emerge -p, where only the package name, version installed, and version available are listed. This would potentially speed up the process of a user narrowing down the precise name of the ebuild he wants to emerge.
Created attachment 7131 [details, diff] Adds the option "--minimal" (-m) to be used with the "search" option to reduce the amount of output produced. As requested.
--quiet / -q fixed in cvs
