Re: Can we increase the print width/column in daemon backtraces

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Set the COLUMNS environment variable to some large value.
>
> Hmm... I use Eshell (in Emacs), in which the COLUMNS env variable is 
> automatically
> set to the Emacs window width.  For instance right now I have 190.  And
> the daemon still displays truncated message (i.e. way shorter than 190).
>
> Is there something else to do then?
> I'll also try with a (more) regular shell.

The daemon is run as 'root' on a Guix system, so you need to set this
environment variable for the 'root' user session.  As an example, I set
this in my /root/.bash_profile file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
export COLUMNS=160              # wider Guile backtraces
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

HTH!

Maxim