[asterisk-dev] Wrapping CLI output at 80 columns.

George Joseph george.joseph at fairview5.com
Wed Oct 23 12:27:04 CDT 2013


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Paul Belanger <
paul.belanger at polybeacon.com> wrote:

> On 13-10-23 10:51 AM, Rusty Newton wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:23 PM, George Joseph
>> <george.joseph at fairview5.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> So, thoughts on removing the 80 column wrap requirement and just letting
>>> the
>>> screen do the wrapping?
>>>
>>
>> As I mentioned in the dev chat, I'm a +1 for this as well. I don't
>> feel like the 80 character limit is relevant any longer.
>>
>>  So, python PEP8[1] recently relaxed there guidelines, so I think we
> could also follow suit.  I still think 80 should be aimed for, but allowing
> up to 100 being the max. I still think we should have something for the
> upper limit.
>
> [1] http://www.python.org/dev/**peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-**length<http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-length>
>
> I'm OK with striving for a 100 character limit as a design guideline but I
do think people are used to more considering that sip show peers needs 140
to not wrap (and is quite useful).  OTOH, Rusty's mock up for pjsip show
endpoints needs only 95.

I'll start with 100 and see how it looks with a bunch of real endpoints.
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