2017-09-04 19:35 GMT+02:00 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > "Daniel Verite" <dan...@manitou-mail.org> writes: > > The two-space left margin on the entire block does not add that > > much to readability, IMV, so maybe we could reclaim these > > two characters. > > Well, it's a sub-list of the entire output of helpVariables(), so > I think some indentation is a good idea. > > > That would look like the following, for example, with a 3-space margin > > for the description: > > > AUTOCOMMIT > > If set, successful SQL commands are automatically committed > > But we could do something close to that, say two-space indent for the > variable names and four-space for the descriptions. > > > To me that looks like a good trade-off: it eases the size constraints > > for both the description and the name of the variable, at the cost > > of consuming one more line per variable, but that's why the pager > > is for. > > Yeah, we're already past the point where it's likely that > helpVariables()'s output would fit on one screen for anybody, so > maybe this is the best way. >
the "less" pager supports horizontal scrolling very well. regards Pavel > > regards, tom lane >