Re: ChangeLog conventions: fill-column

[Kim F. Storm]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> recently some people (Stefan, Kim) reformatted my ChangeLog entries.
> My `fill-column' in ChangeLog buffers if 74 which is the default from
> `change-log-mode'[1].  Am I missing some coding convention for Emacs
> ChangeLog files?

I don't recall when this started, but we now allow max 79 characters
per line in Emacs ChangeLog files (I see a few lines of 80 chars,
but I'm not sure that is really ok).

IMO, we should have a file-local setting to reflect this.

>
> Bye, Reiner.
>
> [1]
>
> ,----[ <f1> f change-log-mode RET ]
> | change-log-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `add-log.el'.
> | (change-log-mode)
> | 
> | Major mode for editing change logs; like Indented Text Mode.
> | Prevents numeric backups and sets `left-margin' to 8 and `fill-column' to 
> 74.
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