On Sat 05 Mar 2011 14:26, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >> On Mon 21 Feb 2011 07:02, Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> writes: >> >>> I find that the backtrace output in the REPL is too constrained >>> my verbose code. The attached patch would let one set the >>> >>> width of the backtrace and locals meta-commands. >>> >>> What do you think? >> >> Applied, thanks. > > FWIW I still think that the default should take into account terminal > settings, as discussed in this thread.
Sorry for the confusion. The terminal settings are associated with an fd, which maps more or less to a port, and I thought that you were opposed to port-specific properties. (Incidentally I did not think that argument made much sense.) Having it be a repl-specific property has the irritation of propagating the width down to nested repls. To me the true place of this setting is specific to a thread, as repls are (largely) specific to threads. So it would be equivalent to have `terminal-width' close over a fluid instead of a lexical. Anyway, with a week gone by and no more patches from anyone involved, I decided to think about it myself for a bit, and ended up thinking Mike's patch was "worse is better", but then also feeling it could be cleaner, hence my addition. Also, I wanted the initial settings to reflect the terminal width without a need to call ,width. So them's the reasons! Let me know if you have any more concerns. Do try out different approaches -- it is a clarifying agent :) Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
