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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Terminal width for help output
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Msg-id 200711152158.29284.peter_e@gmx.net
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Responses Re: Terminal width for help output  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Terminal width for help output  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Re: Terminal width for help output  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Terminal width for help output  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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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/

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