From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Source code formatting: line length limit? Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:48:05 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84lm187ysa.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84ptqlflp7.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200301260121.h0Q1LXx18015@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043592686 19403 80.91.224.249 (26 Jan 2003 14:51:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18co84-00052n-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:51:24 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18coBp-0008N2-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:55:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18co6l-0008D0-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:50:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18co6P-00086t-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18co6O-00086I-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:49:40 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18co5w-0007n7-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:49:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18co4J-0004rK-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:47:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18co4I-0004rA-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:47:30 +0100 Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KkzqBbzeFC3Gp7HXM93tUyZe1Qw= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11086 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11086 "Stefan Monnier" writes: > I happen to think that 60 columns is more legible, but I also think > that in most cases, source code that spans 80 columns is perfectly legible > because almost none of the lines actually takes more than 60 columns > of text. I think both of you implicitly imply that text *over* 80 columns is bad and should be avoided. Could you make this explicit? To illustrate my problem: I have just reformatted source code from something like 120 columns to something below 80. Should I revert this change, making the lines longer again? Some of the changes produced rather awful-looking code because the code is nested very deeply. -- Ambibibentists unite!