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Subject: Re: Can we increase the print width/column in daemon backtraces
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> On 15. Jul 2019, at 17:40, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> P <pronaip@protonmail.com> writes:
>=20
>>> Hi Pierre,
>>>=20
>>>> 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.
>>>=20
>>> Set the COLUMNS environment variable to some large value.
>>>=20
>> Can't it just not truncate them? This is a very brutish way of
>> condensing log output and breaks some workflows.
>=20
> 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.)

It=E2=80=99s open source, though, isn=E2=80=99t it? Let=E2=80=99s fix =
it!