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RE: Docstring line length


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Docstring line length
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:15:44 -0800

       The reason given for 67 for the first line was apparently
       its appearance in *Apropos*. I don't see the point of this.

    For defcustoms there still is another reason for the first line of the
    docstring not being too long: if you click on [More] in a Custom
    buffer and the more changes to [Hide Rest], the docstring can look
    _really_ ugly with a long first line.

Fair enough. How long is too long? What's a good guideline? Do you think the
cut-off for the first line should be <, =, or > the cut-off for subsequent
lines? I vote for 70 for all doc-string lines.





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