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The formatter has always been inconsistent about how to refer to the limit that it tries to fit code in. The option name (which is older than when I started working on the formatter) is "--line-length". But the public API and all of the internal code uses "page width".

This renames that option to "--page-width". The old name is still supported (but hidden in help) for backwards compatibility.

In practice, this option isn't used often, so this likely won't affect many users. We've already made a major version bump, so now seems like a good time to clean things up as much as possible.

cc @johnmccutchan since the inconsistency was bugging you. :)

The formatter has always been inconsistent about how to refer to the
limit that it tries to fit code in. The option name (which is older
than when I started working on the formatter) is "--line-length". But
the public API and all of the internal code uses "page width".

This renames that option to "--page-width". The old name is still
supported (but hidden in help) for backwards compatibility.

In practice, this option isn't used often, so this likely won't affect
many users.
@munificent munificent merged commit 7d4acb8 into main Oct 10, 2024
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@munificent munificent deleted the rename-line-length branch October 10, 2024 21:41
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