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Re: bytecomp: doc string wider than 80 spurious warnings are back


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: bytecomp: doc string wider than 80 spurious warnings are back
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:16:17 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

T.V Raman wrote:

> For docstring, since Emacs is the one that is going to
> display the docstring, I think code in the Help system
> should take care of formatting the docstring to match the
> size of the window, not rely on the developer to write the
> docstring to match a hard-coded width. The easiest thing for
> the help buffer to do might be to just turn on
> visual-line-mode, so yes, I think this warning is
> ill-adviced and noisy

But maybe that will break lines where not intended/indented?

Also 80 columns is some safe standard for virtual
terminals, right?

Try 'echo $COLUMNS', what do you get? I get 80 in the
Linux VTs, and 90 in xterm.

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