Re: Terminal width for help output

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Terminal width for help output
Date: 2007-11-15 21:02:16
Message-ID: 200711152102.lAFL2G604450@momjian.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Do we care to maintain a maximum width for programs' --help output (and psql's
> \?)? I think 79 characters was once a recommendation (or perhaps 72), but we
> have a couple of violations either way, which I'd like to fix, but what to?

Yea, I went over with the pg_ctl --timeout parameter and had to trim a
little. I would like us to keep it <80 myself.

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