Bug#524099: reportbug: Truncate lines width in bug description
Hi Carl, On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 22:47, chaicacha...@ohmytux.com wrote: Could you more specific about what you wish ? Could you give an example of a too long summary line of a bug report? What did you mean by horizontally scrolling down ? Do you mean in your web browser ? I think this bug already shows the problems: Apelete wrote long sentences that are not wrapped to a given column (usually 80 or 72). This will lead to the need of *horizontal* scrolling, really annoying. I do think this is something the the MUA / EDITOR used should no and *NOT* reportbug (there are lines that *needs* to be long, like errors / stack straces co). Is this the problem? Apelete can you confirm? Carl, do you think the same as of me? Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#524099: reportbug: Truncate lines width in bug description
Hi, I think this bug already shows the problems: Apelete wrote long sentences that are not wrapped to a given column (usually 80 or 72). This will lead to the need of *horizontal* scrolling, really annoying. That's it Sandro, you understood exactly what I was trying to describe. I do think this is something the the MUA / EDITOR used should no and *NOT* reportbug (there are lines that *needs* to be long, like errors / stack straces co). I thought the same, but since I write my bug reports in the terminal using Vim (this one is written from Gmail web interface though) I reported the bug against this package. Perhaps there's a config option in Vim to tell it to wrap the text to a given column...I definitely should look into that. If text wrapping isn't available in Vim (and I seriously doubt that), I may have to switch to another editor :'(. Perhaps something should be written in the README.Users file, to tell people to enable text wrapping in their editor or switch to an editor that support it. Anyway, I'll try investigating this Vim text wrappping option when I have some time, and keep you informed. Cheers. -- Apelete Seketeli apel...@seketeli.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#524099: reportbug: Truncate lines width in bug description
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:27, Apelete Seketeliapel...@seketeli.org wrote: Hi, I think this bug already shows the problems: Apelete wrote long sentences that are not wrapped to a given column (usually 80 or 72). This will lead to the need of *horizontal* scrolling, really annoying. That's it Sandro, you understood exactly what I was trying to describe. :) I do think this is something the the MUA / EDITOR used should no and *NOT* reportbug (there are lines that *needs* to be long, like errors / stack straces co). I thought the same, but since I write my bug reports in the terminal using Vim (this one is written from Gmail web interface though) I reported the bug against this package. Perhaps there's a config option in Vim to tell it to wrap the text to a given column...I definitely should look into that. If text wrapping isn't available in Vim (and I seriously doubt that), I may have to switch to another editor :'(. Sure, vim has text wrapping capabilities: in command-mode type 'set textwidth=80 or replace 80 with the column number you want your text to be wrapped around. Also emacs has Meta + q to wrap text (executed on the paragraph to wrap). Perhaps something should be written in the README.Users file, to tell people to enable text wrapping in their editor or switch to an editor that support it. Well, I'm a bit unsure if this is the right approach: you choose to use an editor, and you're supposed to know how to use it (else you can document about it). I think we cannot add any possible documentation about the tools that can be used by reportbug. That said, I think we can close the bug: Apelete, do you agree? Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#524099: reportbug: Truncate lines width in bug description
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:40, Sandro Tosimo...@debian.org wrote: Sure, vim has text wrapping capabilities: in command-mode type 'set textwidth=80 or replace 80 with the column number you want your text to be wrapped around. Also emacs has Meta + q to wrap text (executed on the paragraph to wrap). Oh that's very kind of you, I learned something today, not even needing to RTFM (not that I hate it, but you know how it feels sometimes...). Well, I'm a bit unsure if this is the right approach: you choose to use an editor, and you're supposed to know how to use it (else you can document about it). I think we cannot add any possible documentation about the tools that can be used by reportbug. Yeah well, I think you got a point here too :-). That said, I think we can close the bug: Apelete, do you agree? Agree. See you on the next bug report. Regards. -- Apelete Seketeli apel...@seketeli.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#524099: reportbug: Truncate lines width in bug description
tags 524099 moreinfo thanks Hi, Thanks for your report. Could you more specific about what you wish ? Could you give an example of a too long summary line of a bug report? What did you mean by horizontally scrolling down ? Do you mean in your web browser ? Bye, Carl Chenet -- Package-specific info: ** /home/apelete/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version 3.48 mode standard ui text email apel...@seketeli.org smtphost smtp.googlemail.com:587 smtptls -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python2.5.4-2An interactive high-level object-o ii python-reportbug 4.1Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utils none (no description available) pn debsums none (no description available) pn dlocate none (no description available) ii exim4 4.69-9 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon ii file 5.00-1 Determines file type using magic ii gnupg 1.4.9-4GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep pn python-gnome2-extras none (no description available) ii python-gtk2 2.14.1-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge pn python-urwid none (no description available) pn python-vtenone (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#524099: reportbug: Truncate lines width in bug description
Package: reportbug Version: 4.1 Severity: wishlist The last bug reports I sent using reportbug had too long lines in their descriptions: when viewed on the Debian BTS one have to horizontally scroll to read some sentences, and that's very annoying. I don't know the number of characters each line shouldn't exceed, but each line should definitely be truncated to that width (with auto inserted return characters). -- Package-specific info: ** /home/apelete/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version 3.48 mode standard ui text email apel...@seketeli.org smtphost smtp.googlemail.com:587 smtptls -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python2.5.4-2An interactive high-level object-o ii python-reportbug 4.1Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utils none (no description available) pn debsums none (no description available) pn dlocate none (no description available) ii exim4 4.69-9 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon ii file 5.00-1 Determines file type using magic ii gnupg 1.4.9-4GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep pn python-gnome2-extras none (no description available) ii python-gtk2 2.14.1-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge pn python-urwid none (no description available) pn python-vtenone (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
