On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 12:32 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:51:49PM -0430, Ernesto Hernández-Novich wrote: > > The manpage states that Twidge will attempt to shorten URLs in your > > updates via the is.gd, bit.ly, j.ump or TinyURL services, if one > > sets the shortenurl option to 'yes' in ~/.twidgerc. > > > > However, if the update's text length is less than or equal to 140 > > characters, the URL shortening does not happen, because of the > > way the function procStatus (taken from Commands/Update.hs) has > > been written: > [snip] > > But what if I don't want the URLs to be shortened unless the text is > actually larger than 140 characters? I'd prefer complete URLs whenever > possible, and shorten only if needed. > > Of course, this is _my_ preference, and need not match everyone > else's.
I agree with you. However, shortening _every_ URL _every_ time seems to be the common practice for Twitter clients, and that's the behaviour implied by the man page. If there where an additional preference for conditional URL shortening, I'd probably use it, if only to annoy those who think "every URL should be shortened or ponies die", but that would require extra code plus changes in the manpage. It's easier to fix the code to match the manpage :-) -- Prof. Ernesto Hernández-Novich - MYS-220C - @iamemhn Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Debian of course. If you can't aptitude it, it isn't useful or doesn't exist. GPG Key Fingerprint = 438C 49A2 A8C7 E7D7 1500 C507 96D6 A3D6 2F4C 85E3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
