Auto line wrapping on comment field breaks scripts and code
Bug #482436 reported by
MarcRandolph
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The ridiculously narrow comment field auto-wraps text. This breaks code and script fragments that are pasted into it, confusing users that might want or need to copy items pasted into the bug report by other users or bug triagers. Here is but a simple example:
sudo mythtv-setup.real --verbose channelscan,
Newbies are not going to realize that the "> mythtv-setup.log" belongs on the end of the previous line and wonder why they get weird behavior.
This is an even bigger problem for code or scripts that have comments, or longer lines from Make files.
Note: I believe this is different than Bug #435905, hence the new bug report
affects: | launchpad → malone |
Changed in malone: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in launchpad-answers: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in blueprint: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in launchpad-code: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: comments |
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This bug also affects Launchpad. I just got copied on a change to the whiteboard at https:/ /blueprints. edge.launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +spec/server- lucid-cloud- test via email. Obviously the link doesn't work anymore because the testing was moved to the next line and is no longer part of the URL:
Whiteboard set to: /blueprints. edge.launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +spec/lucid- qa-cloud-
How is this different from:
https:/
testing