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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Can we increase the print width/column in daemon backtraces
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 17:40:05 +0200
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P <pronaip@protonmail.com> writes:

>> Hi Pierre,
>>
>> > Quite often when packaging and iterating, the daemon produces backtrac=
es
>> > on errors, which could be very useful to understand what's wrong, but
>> > unfortunately the output is truncated to some 80-ish column.
>>
>> Set the COLUMNS environment variable to some large value.
>>
> Can't it just not truncate them? This is a very brutish way of
> condensing log output and breaks some workflows.

I also don=E2=80=99t like it, but that=E2=80=99s what Guile does.  (It=E2=
=80=99s not Guix that
truncates the output.)

> I for one often use
> Acme because I can just right click on paths in it and it opens them
> with the plumber. If a path is split across lines, Acme can't pick
> that up.

Same here with Emacs (M-x ffap).

--
Ricardo