From: Nathan Panike <nwp@cs.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:50:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Specify a precision for the length of a subject string
Message-ID: <20111220225014.GD21353@llunet.cs.wisc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87k45qriu2.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:15:01PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
> "Nathan W. Panike" <nathan.panike@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > This is useful when one is working on a system where the pager is lousy.
> 
> I'm curious.  Are you saying your less does not have -S (or you do not
> even have less), or do you have a reason not to use it?
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

The reason I thought of this initially was that I have a bot reporting commits
at $dayjob in an IRC channel. Since some of my colleagues commit with long
subject lines, I thought of this as a way to control the output of the bot
(e.g., by controlling the bot's input).

Nathan Panike