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Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?
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Philipp Stephani |
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Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase? |
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Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:12:03 +0100 |
Am Fr., 25. Dez. 2020 um 23:01 Uhr schrieb <tomas@tuxteam.de>:
>
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 06:11:57PM +0100, Philipp Stephani wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > This seems overly complicated, and people are unlikely to follow
> > complicated rules.
>
> I tend to disagree.
>
> > Let's just pick a number and stick to it consistently.
>
> That doesn't make much sense, IMO. Most of the time it's
> easy to stick to the recommended 70. More often than not,
> it even helps to nudge oneself into structuring code
> better.
Then why don't we just do that (for new code)? Why do we need two limits?
>
> But sometimes (e.g. you have long string literals where
> breaks don't make sense -- but there are other examples),
> it is rather counterproductive to stick religiously to
> that rule.
I'm not talking about such special cases, but about normal code or
comment blocks that could easily be reflowed.
> Honestly, I perceive Stefan's criteria as pretty natural.
I don't.
- Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, (continued)
- Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, tomas, 2020/12/25
- Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, Michael Albinus, 2020/12/26
- Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, Yuri Khan, 2020/12/26
- Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, Michael Albinus, 2020/12/26
- Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, Yuri Khan, 2020/12/26
- Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, tomas, 2020/12/26
- RE: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, Drew Adams, 2020/12/26
- Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?,
Philipp Stephani <=
Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, Philipp Stephani, 2020/12/25
Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/26
Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, Philipp Stephani, 2020/12/26
RE: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?, Drew Adams, 2020/12/26