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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:21:27 -0400
> 
> 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?

Sounds too minor to be mentioned there.  CONTRIBUTE already has too
many minor details, which makes it harder to read and follow.

We have .dir-locals.el for that.