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Subject: Re: Can we increase the print width/column in daemon backtraces
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> Hi Pierre,
>
> > Quite often when packaging and iterating, the daemon produces backtrace=
s
> > 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.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ricardo

Can't it just not truncate them? This is a very brutish way of condensing l=
og output and breaks some workflows. 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 p=
ath is split across lines, Acme can't pick that up.