Hi Colin, At 2025-01-27T17:46:14+0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 06:26:22AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Me neither! Years ago I used to tolerate this and found myself much > > happier when I forced an 80-column limit on man pages I viewed. > > Since joining groff development I've embraced a 72-column limit in > > much of my work. > > I am one who often uses these allegedly "insane" line lengths, and I > find my personal ideal very dependent on monitor size, resolution, > current distance from monitor, eyesight, caffeination level, the > language of the text I'm currently reading, and a number of other > factors. Fortunately, I have flexibility.
You'd better, with those multifarious parameters. :) I like wide (in fact, maximized) terminals just fine, but if I'm going to be reading a chunk of prose, I find I am distressingly typical in my line length preference, according to those who have researched an "optimal" range. > > I don't know of anyone who's in love with Git's submodule approach. > > Not that finding an alternative would completely address your > > grievance--but it would help. > > You're in luck! I got a patch into Gnulib some years ago that allows > using it without submodules, and since git submodules have a hateful > UI, I recommend that you switch to it: > > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=c083cd5af2655e6cd0240d02dccb28556bad8dbf > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=90f289f249a266b1afb9c63e182f5d979d17df5f > > It should be a matter of removing .gitmodules and instead setting > GNULIB_REVISION in bootstrap.conf to refer to the desired Gnulib commit > ID. You can then change that with ordinary commits as needed, rather > than trying to remember the submodule commands. This is exciting. I'll keep in mind for early in the groff 1.25 cycle. Dave's found yet another thing I managed to regress about 6 months ago (again, not something anyone's likely to exercise or notice in man pages), so I'm not eager to kick groff's build system in any way. Trixie is drumming her fingernails and popping her bubble gum at me impatiently, while Chim-Chim hoots and leaps about. Regards, Branden
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