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

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>

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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
To: torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>
Cc: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-09-13T17:46:23Z
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On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 9:47 PM torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.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

Commits

  1. Add test for checking the line length of --help output

  2. Remove environment-variable-based defaults in psql --help