On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> wrote:
> The initial patch, split between rev. 31343 and 31999 indeed added Thanks for helping tracking history. > + /* Enable automatic line wrapping by default */ > + set_message_length (72); > > to C++ lang_decode_option. Later it got appearantly lost somehow, > probably during some of the Great Option Reorgs. Yes, most likely. > > I still think automatic wrapping (at 72 columns!? A terminal > is 80x24!) should not be done by default. The choice of 72 at the time was based on the 80 of the terminal and Emacs guidelines. The requests I have heared most vocally was to increase the length of line, not to suppress the wrapping by default. > You probably will break > a lot of existing scripts that assume the default of zero. > > Richard.
