John Cai <johncai86@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Not a suggestion to change anything in this patch, but just an >> observation. >> >> - If the mode is useful enough for many users, certainly somebody >> would have rewritten this loop to lift the line-length limit, but >> nobody noticed and complained about this 2k limit for the past 17 >> years. I am not sure if that is an indication that nobody uses >> the option in its current form. > > Would this also mean that deprecating --stdin wouldn’t be **too** > disruptive to existing users and scripts? That probably is a lot of wishful thinking. Most likely, it is an indication that most text input files that go into the command have no overly long lines ;-) Loss of or change in behaviour of the command would be disruptive for the users who are content with the limitation that they cannot feed lines wider than 2k.
