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

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Sa., 26. Dez. 2020 um 11:24 Uhr schrieb Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
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>   > > 70 is it, we just don't necessarily enforce it religously.
>   > >
>   > > Where did you see significant deviations from that standard?
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>   > 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.
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> Why argue about how rigid to be?  Relax, please.
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> 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.


I don't think we should reformat existing code, that just adds
annoying whitespace changes that make 'git blame' etc. unnecessarily
hard. What I'd propose would be to stick to the 70-column limit a bit
more consistently in new or changed code.