retitle 11044 RFE: fmt goal width thanks On 03/19/2012 02:00 PM, Bruce Korb wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> As for fmt, I'll let others chime in; it's the sort of thing where a >> patch speaks louder than requests. > > A "patch, please" reply is completely fine. Going to the trouble of > making a patch > wherein the patch is not considered is not quite so fine. I guess I > should make it > clearer: > > would you-all accept a patch that added a "-g" option to set the goal > column as opposed to deriving it by multiplying the width by 0.93 ? Yes - I would welcome such a patch, on the grounds of supporting a use case currently possible in other existing implementations. According to http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/fmt/, there is no 'g' option, but BSD 'fmt 60 70' would operate like your proposed 'fmt -g 60 -w 70'. In fact, it might even be worth to teach GNU fmt about a non-option numeric argument being treated as --width rather than as a file name. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org