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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > 70 is it, we just don't necessarily enforce it religously.
  > >
  > > Where did you see significant deviations from that standard?

  > Everywhere? When I last counted there were more than 1900 files in the
  > codebase that have lines longer than 70 characters. In src/emacs.c
  > alone there are over 160 such lines.

Why argue about how rigid to be?  Relax, please.

If you see a clean way to eliminate some of those overlong lines,
please do it.  That way, we will move towards having fewer annoyingly
long lines, and we will avoid the need to adopt a rule about it.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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