[PATCH] Add ui.width configuration variable

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Mon Aug 3 15:55:32 CDT 2009


On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 16:03, Alexander Solovyov<piranha at piranha.org.ua> wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Alexander Solovyov <piranha at piranha.org.ua>
> # Date 1249135312 -10800
> # Node ID 565507a27d6b7a96be62493d0c3be87075879fb5
> # Parent  45aaf27f95b8243fcfcd056fbc9bd4cfd2525dbe
> Add ui.width configuration variable
>
> This allows user to define wrapping column for help without using COLUMNS
> environment variable (which will have effect on other tools).

What's the use case here? It seems like YAGNI kind of thing. You could
just use COLUMNS=x hg in an alias or whatever. Or, if there's some
reason you don't want COLUMS for other tools, that would suggest those
other tools are broken in some way.

Cheers,

Dirkjan



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