Re: patch(1) max line length

Robert Elz wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |    Date:        Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:15:57 +0000
 |    From:        Emmanuel Dreyfus <[email protected]>
 |    Message-ID:  <[email protected]>
 |
 || I note the specification does not forbid the 
 || handling of lines longer than LINE_MAX characters.
 |
 |No, it certainly does not do that.
 |
 |However applications (at least if there's any attempt at portability
 |at all) shouldn't assume that will work.

It is your fault to think normal rules apply to JSON, for sure.
It is exceptional, see for example

  $ wc -lwc /var/tmp/steffen/.cache/.mupdf.history
      1    22 23240 /var/tmp/steffen/.cache/.mupdf.history

They all do not care no more.  (I remove this once in a while, it
would be even worse otherwise.)
You are assumed to use json_pp or something, ah, i think "jq".

Btw my MUA calls its on-program-exit also very late, even
documented so ("after terminal is torn down" or so).  I find it
much more natural to configure history during startup, when
case $- finds *i*|*m*.

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