Seppo Sade <sepposa...@gmail.com> writes: > Currently Ledger seems to format output to a default width of 80 > characters for register output. When generating such output in e.g. an > Emacs buffer in a standard 80 character wide terminal, each 80- > character line gets wrapped (because Emacs needs to insert a line- > wrapping marker at the end, so there is no space for the last 80th > character which has to go on a new line). > > Would it make sense to limit the default output to 79 characters > instead to accomodate for editors having this behavior? It is just a > minor annoyance, but still an annoyance when you do e.g. M-! "ledger - > f data reg" and each entry is spread out over two lines, when ledger > clearly tries to put it on a single line by limiting it to 80 > characters.
Ledger 3 adapts to whatever $COLUMNS is set to, or you can use --columns=X in your ~/.ledgerrc to setup a different default. John
