Feature #247

- Added feature #247, providing infinite width reports when redirecting output
  to a file, by setting defaultwidth to 0.

ChangeLog

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
  + Added burndown charts - burndown.daily, burndown.weekly, burndown.monthly,
    that use color.burndown.pending, color.burndown.started and
    color.burndown.done colors.
+ + Added feature #247, providing infinite width reports when redirecting output
+   to a file, by setting defaultwidth to 0.
  + Added feature #546, which is a 'count' command that counts tasks, and is
    intended to help scripts that manipulate task output.
  + Fixed bug #515, which displayed an incorrect message after duplicating a

NEWS

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ New Features in taskwarrior 1.9.4
 
   - New burndown charts.
   - New 'count' helper command.
+  - Inifinite width reports, when redirecting output, by using rc.defaultwidth=0.
 
   Please refer to the ChangeLog file for full details.  There are too many to
   list here.

doc/man/taskrc.5

@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ using, for text wrapping.
 .TP
 .B defaultwidth=80
 The width of tables used when ncurses support is not available. Defaults to 80.
+If set to 0, is interpreted as infinite width, therefore with no word-wrapping;
+useful when redirecting report output to a file for subsequent manipulation.
 
 .TP
 .B editor=vi

src/interactive.cpp

@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ int Context::getWidth ()
   debug (out.str ());
 #endif
 
+  // A zero width value means 'infinity', which is approximated here by 2^16.
+  if (width == 0)
+    width = 65536;
+
   return width;
 }