From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: kerolasa@iki.fi, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wall: wrap message header when it exceeds 79 characters
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:00:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201407291600.s6TG04TH024607@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140729074408.GO8533@x2.net.home> (kzak@redhat.com)
Hmmm... It seems to me that there's an interface issue. If you're
*sure* that the message will always be consumed by a human, wrapping
is the nice thing to do. But if the message will sometimes have to be
extracted by an automaton, write the message without line breaks,
because it's a lot easier for a human to visually reassemble a long
line (wrapped by whatever the display container is) than it is for a
program to discern that two lines are part of the same message.
Dale
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-29 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-27 19:01 [PATCH] wall: wrap message header when it exceeds 79 characters Sami Kerola
2014-07-29 7:44 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-29 8:27 ` Sami Kerola
2014-07-29 16:00 ` Dale R. Worley [this message]
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