Wrapping some (too) long lines in help.

matteocorti / check_ssl_cert

A shell script (that can be used as a Nagios/Icinga plugin) to check an SSL/TLS connection.

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Wrapping some (too) long lines in help. #341

Closed booboo-at-gluga-de closed 2 years ago

booboo-at-gluga-de commented 2 years ago

The output of "check_ssl_cert --help" contained some very long lines. This causes trouble:

If executed on terminals with limited size, the information is hard too read.
In the README.md as displayed on GitHub, some information is being cut off (and the user needs to scroll horizontally to read the full information) - this is deemed uncomfortable fot the user.

matteocorti commented 2 years ago

Thanks!

matteocorti commented 2 years ago

I followed you advice and shortened everything to the canonical 78 characters

booboo-at-gluga-de commented 2 years ago

Hi Matteo,

to be honest: I (personally) wouldn't have been that strict. I had more the pragmatic approach in mind (every line length fitting into a terminal which is nowadays available somewhere "in the wild" and everything fitting into GitHub's representation of the README file would have been suggested to be OK). But I absolutely agree: With 78 you are always for 100% safe!

Thanks a lot!

matteocorti commented 2 years ago

Hi Bernd

I know, 78 is a little old-fashioned, but so it's even readable on my mobile phone :-)

Matteo