Re: Terminal width for help output

On Nov 15, 2007 4:56 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> 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?
>
> 79 is perfect IMHO.  It would be great to ask translators to preserve
> the constraint too.

Agreed, all my terminals are set to standard 80 cols and I always
manually wrap at 79 just to be safe.

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