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Terminal width for help output

From:	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To:	pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject:	Terminal width for help output
Date:	2007-11-15 20:58:28
Message-ID:	200711152158.29284.peter_e@gmx.net
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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?

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

Responses

Re: Terminal width for help output at 2007-11-15 21:02:16 from Bruce Momjian
Re: Terminal width for help output at 2007-11-15 21:02:32 from Joshua D. Drake
Re: Terminal width for help output at 2007-11-15 21:04:46 from Tom Lane
Re: Terminal width for help output at 2007-11-15 21:56:06 from Alvaro Herrera

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