Re: [HACKERS] Preliminary results for proposed new pgindentimplementation

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 01:34:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I could live with both of these proposed
> > changes, the selection of the changes you posted looks like it could be
> > improved by code changes, but that's obviously a large amount of work.
> 
> In the end, the only thing that fixes this sort of stuff is to be more
> rigid about making the code fit into 80 columns to begin with.  I get
> the impression though that a lot of people work in editor windows that
> are wider than that, so the code looks fine to them when it slops over
> a bit.

Yes, it is all about <80 column output.  The current pgindent does
everything possible to accomplish that --- the question is whether we
want uglier code to do it.

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