Re: Make --help output fit within 80 columns per line

From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: torikoshia <torikoshia(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Make --help output fit within 80 columns per line
Date: 2023-09-13 17:46:23
Message-ID: CAKAnmmKCNPkPSH8LwjVd0Q4u0zja+4R9Zag4jy6+JRYEUkURTQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 9:47 PM torikoshia <torikoshia(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
wrote:

> Since it seems preferable to have consistent line break policy and some
> people use 80-column terminal, wouldn't it be better to make all commands
> in 80
> columns per line?
>

All this seems an awful lot of work to support this mythical 80-column
terminal user. It's 2023, perhaps it's time to widen the default assumption
past 80 characters?

Cheers,
Greg

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