332207 - make comment wrapping configurable

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Joost de Valk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

I'd like to see comment wrapping configurable. Do i understand why it's done serverside, in our bugzilla (bugzilla.opendarwin.org) we tend to not want comment wrapping at all. Though i know how to fix it now, i see that as an ugly workaround to it not being configurable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type a line longer then 80 chars.
2. Get wrapped.

Comment 1

[Bill Barry]

This strikes me as something that aught to be a param (Maybe with 0 causing no wrap).

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

Are you really able to read lines as long as 150 characters or more? The human eye is able to read lines as long as 70-80 characters. Above that, it becomes rather difficult (which is the reason why books haven't more characters than that per line, and why newspapers have several columns instead of a very long one).

Comment 3

[Bill Barry]

I could see it becoming very useful if someone used their Bugzilla comment sections to paste formatted code. Maybe not 150 chars, but 100 is easy to reach when you are writing a statement. It also would depend on the language. My C++ often grabs at 100 chars, whereas the perl I write is normally around 40 characters.

Comment 4

[Joost de Valk]

Not only code, stack traces as well... 

Comment 5

[Albert Ting]

Could someone explain why the wrapping couldn't be done on the client side?  That would satisfy looking at source code, as well as auto-wrap plain text.  Granted, email messages probably needs to auto-wrap.  

Another option could be to have a comment-specific wrap flag.

Comment 6

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

 WONTFIX in favor of simply doing the wrapping on the client-side. (That is, there won't be a preference, we're just not going to do server-side wrapping anymore at all.)