Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?

[Karl Fogel]

On 23 Dec 2020, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>Indeed.  I'd say that we it's a kind of progressive limit:
>- it's OK to have all lines ≤ 70-columns wide
>- it's not OK to have most lines >70-columns
>- we tolerate reaching the area between 70 and 80 columns every once in
>  a while, tho.
>- ≥80 columns OTOH should really be rare, limited to the exceptional
>  cases where the alternative is really worse.

Do we want this documented in CONTRIBUTE?