Re: Terminal width for help output - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Terminal width for help output
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Msg-id 473CB4FE.2040804@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Terminal width for help output  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian 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?
>>     
>
> 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.
>
>   

+1. wrapping is annoying.

cheers

andrew


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