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Subject: Re: Can we increase the print width/column in daemon backtraces
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:58:16 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
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On 2019-07-15 14:47, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Hi Pierre,
> 
>> Quite often when packaging and iterating, the daemon produces backtraces
>> 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.

This should be added to the manual I think.

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