Re: user_prefs: mind the linebreak

2008-02-19 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
This is bug 5442, btw. On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 23:54 -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > For what? The only config lines that I can think of that are really > long are for rules. We're certainly not going to go sticking > backslashes in the middle of regexes. Not necessarily in the middle of REs,

Re: user_prefs: mind the linebreak

2008-02-18 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > MK> Call me older fashioned.. I consider line-wrapping a bit too "fancy" > MK> for my config editing preferences. > > I see, you must have a billion column wide terminal or something. > Oops. You whippersnappers don't call them terminals these days. > Anyway, I swear I a

RE: [OT]user_prefs: mind the linebreak

2008-02-18 Thread Rubin Bennett
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:56 +1300, Michael Hutchinson wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2008 4:43 p.m. > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > > Subject

Re: user_prefs: mind the linebreak

2008-02-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael Hutchinson wrote: Line wrapping in config is bad. I've had several instances of an editor in linux that I won't name where I've lost config data because of it wrapping lines instead of just displaying it off page until I'm ready to see it. This seems to happen a lot more frequently with

Re: user_prefs: mind the linebreak

2008-02-18 Thread jidanni
MK> Call me older fashioned.. I consider line-wrapping a bit too "fancy" MK> for my config editing preferences. I see, you must have a billion column wide terminal or something. Oops. You whippersnappers don't call them terminals these days. Anyway, I swear I am not dreaming: $ info make We spli

RE: user_prefs: mind the linebreak

2008-02-18 Thread Michael Hutchinson
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2008 4:43 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: user_prefs: mind the linebreak > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > MK>

Re: user_prefs: mind the linebreak

2008-02-18 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MK> Why would there ever be a problem fitting on one line? Lines aren't MK> limited to 80 characters or anything silly like that.. MK> That sounds a bit like complaining that a ship must fit in the water.. MK> There's a whole ocean out there, so who cares if you can't pu

Re: user_prefs: mind the linebreak

2008-02-18 Thread jidanni
MK> Why would there ever be a problem fitting on one line? Lines aren't MK> limited to 80 characters or anything silly like that.. MK> That sounds a bit like complaining that a ship must fit in the water.. MK> There's a whole ocean out there, so who cares if you can't put one MK> boat in 2 rain pu

user_prefs: mind the linebreak

2008-02-18 Thread jidanni
RP> Mind the linebreak :-) That reminds me of this MINOR ITEM, Currently, each rule or configuration setting must fit on one-line; multi-line settings are not supported yet.