Lister: please increase chars per line max 512

[JFierce7]

Chars per line in Lister cannot be configured longer than 512 chars. I think, if a limit is necessary at all, it should be much higher. Lines in XML files can be very looong

[Valentino]

Support++. If Wrap option is off, there should be no limit. Sometimes it annoys. If user tries to view/compare some binary file as text, 0 byte can also be treated as line end but not wrapping in unexpected place

[JFierce7]

AFAIK, currently line length are treated as follows:

Wrap off: Lines are broken after 255 chars - that is intentionally and will not be changed (probably).

Wrap on: Line length can be configured in lister. However, the line length cannot be longer than 512 chars. This is too small, IMO.

[Valentino]

Wrap off: Lines are broken after 255 chars - that is intentionally and will not be changed (probably).

This is the same as Wrap On with 256 chars limit, so what is the sense of such Wrap Off?

Wrap on: Line length can be configured in lister. However, the line length cannot be longer than 512 chars. This is too small, IMO.

Even 10240 can be small, depending on the task. Wrap on NNN means wrap on NNN

[JFierce7]

This is the same as Wrap On with 256 chars limit, so what is the sense of such Wrap Off?

Well, I don't agree with this limit

However, as this german thread indicates, Christian chose this limit in order to show large files quickly.

[SanskritFritz]

Sadly there was no reaction to my proposal to increase the line width limit.

[Valentino]

However, as this german thread indicates, Christian chose this limit in order to show large files quickly.

Well, there is some sense in this, but sometimes it spoils the life To make everyone happy we need one more INI option: WrapAlwaysAt512chars which is 1 (on) by default, so such "grumblers" as we could set it to 0

[SanskritFritz]

No, the ini option should be:
MaxCharsInLine=512
I want to set the number!

[Valentino]

But there is already such option (TextWidth in [Lister]) that can be used to set wrapping width. But if you insist on having MaxCharsInLine then I will ask for MaxCharsInLine=0 support (no max chars limit)

[SanskritFritz]

MaxCharsInLine=0 support

I'm afraid that is impossible with the current representation. There has to be a buffer in memory for every line, there has to be a limit. It is possible to write another representation of the lines but that would be much slower IMHO.

[ghisler(Author)]

Currently I cannot increase this number, because the buffer would become too small to hold an entire visible page in memory.

[JFierce7]

But please keep it in mind for future extension!
Thanks