| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Terminal width for help output |
| Date: | 2007-11-15 22:11:04 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920711151411y3820da2ep9c7f31bbf3d2cad6@mail.gmail.com |
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On Nov 15, 2007 4:56 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> 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.
Agreed, all my terminals are set to standard 80 cols and I always
manually wrap at 79 just to be safe.
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