Re: Terminal width for help output

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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:04:46 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > 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?
>
> I think 79 is still a reasonable maximum. AFAIK 80 columns is still a
> pretty standard terminal window width, but if you try to print in the
> last column you may get unexpected extra blank lines.

O.k. this might be offtopic if it is feel free to smack me... but I
have noticed that psql really breaks on terminals that are wide.. \df
works fine, but \df+ is completely broke.

Can't we just ask the terminal?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
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