On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 06:56:06PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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?
>
> 79 is perfect IMHO. It would be great to ask translators to preserve
> the constraint too.
I thought that <79 was good because if output was copied/pasted into an
email that didn't fold lines nicely then output wouldn't get immediately
mangled.
Sam