On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:06:14PM +0200, FRIGN wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:48:20 +0200 > Markus Teich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Markus, > > > The error message strings should not be split over different lines, > > even if they break the 80 character line length rule. On failure you > > want to be able to grep for the exact error string in the source code > > and > > > > grep "unable to grab keyboard for screen" > > > > would not work anymore with the string broken into multiple lines. > > no offense, but this is just stupid. You should feel honored that > Quentin is among the few here who take sane line-lengths seriously.
Error messages should never be split across multiple lines because then grep breaks and it is annoying. This is a well known idiom and has nothing to do with Quentin's contribution record.
