On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:51:13AM -0600, Nathan Panike wrote: > > Hmm. I think the idea of limiting is OK (though personally, I would just > > pipe through a filter that truncates long lines). But I'm a bit negative > > on adding a tweak like this that only affects the subject. Is there a > > reason I couldn't do %30gs, or %30f, or even some other placeholder? > > The ones that make sense to limit are all those that depend on the subject, as the > above; it does not make sense to limit other fields that don't depend on the > subject, as they are fixed width, or have small variance. And it does not make > sense to me to limit the length of the body. I agree the subject is the most likely place. I was thinking one might want to do it with the body, too. But whether it would be "I want N bytes of the body" or "truncate each body line at N bytes without wrapping", I don't know. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html