On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 05:40, Seppo Sade <[email protected]> wrote: > Would it make sense to limit the default output to 79 characters > instead to accomodate for editors having this behavior? It is just a > minor annoyance, but still an annoyance when you do e.g. M-! "ledger - > f data reg" and each entry is spread out over two lines, when ledger > clearly tries to put it on a single line by limiting it to 80 > characters.
Emacs probably has a mode/setting/variable/whatever to tell it not to do that, but I don't know Emacs well enough to find out how... (after all there is nothing that Emacs can't do, right? :-) ) I tried vim and it doesn't have that issue. Nor does the OS X Terminal have a problem with a line exactly as long as the width. All that said, I'd be OK w/ it changing to 79, I know I've seen other places/programs where that is done for similar reasons. I suspect that for backwards compatibility, the default has to stay at 80. I looked through the source to see how hard it would be to have a command line option that took a width value, but didn't really see any easy change (10+ years since I've done C++ so the rust was in my eyes for sure). -Doug
