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bug#66264: Disable warning about wide doc strings by default


From: Stefan Kangas
Subject: bug#66264: Disable warning about wide doc strings by default
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:19:38 +0000

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>
>   > > This is a proposal to disable the warning about doc string line length 
> by default.
>
>   > Thanks, but I'm against this change.  It has been, and continues to
>   > be, tremendously useful in making sure our doc strings are in a good
>   > shape.
>
> I agree.  The point of a warning is to remind programmers to write
> things the way that will give good results, and the width of a doc
> string is part of what determines whether it gives good results
> when users look at it.

FWIW, I'd be in favor of making this change.

However, it seems like we don't have a consensus on this, so I don't
think we'll make much more progress here.  I'm therefore closing this
bug report.  Sorry.





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