From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:01:22 -0700 Message-ID: <86a6xta74d.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <87tuw1x016.fsf@gnus.org> <87o8m9k7gu.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40603"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 13 20:02:43 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kHWKp-000ATt-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 20:02:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41034 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHWKo-00010c-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 14:02:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46552) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHWJc-000072-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 14:01:28 -0400 Original-Received: from gateway20.websitewelcome.com ([192.185.62.46]:20633) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHWJa-0006ws-1o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 14:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from cm10.websitewelcome.com (cm10.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.4]) by gateway20.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247A6400D38B8 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:36:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from host2007.hostmonster.com ([67.20.76.71]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id HWJYk8VdmLFNkHWJYkRMSm; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 13:01:24 -0500 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=stephe-leake.org; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:To:From:Sender: Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help: List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=Nc+FE0ircbHg1RlJTAIu9qsQjyDcTg9/uoR5ncUslZ4=; b=KqHbxHj3j0Ftoy2LXYJPsuACGF uEvsA6x5hcCQVH/C35y5IaawK8D8qrN5TB2/3T6uJPpztDPkHZ238071ySbpGT2OIJJdd+/eIcwqM qP1W/ZsvB894qO0du7HZavFRFvjzeUOEqZP0EeZ0fcS/4O3abyR9hoODmJ7SV+cCDyOoKF+0xMt3x j2AZjELNryU1fOuzda9nT3fE73n+E/v3vNwzQyrJl0EyxkBqiIGuzEZrEY/WFdEUK9Yu+GpftMy7S P92cWn2g3ihkeeKgG5qy9RAxzF3B7lNUjRc7LMzLoJ8PnKx9bYK36buw4kChVo7JjMIaPXguf78rm ujgJqC8Q==; Original-Received: from [76.77.182.20] (port=59202 helo=Takver4) by host2007.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1kHWJX-001zqG-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 12:01:24 -0600 In-Reply-To: <87o8m9k7gu.fsf@telefonica.net> (=?utf-8?Q?=22=C3=93scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:43:45 +0200") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host2007.hostmonster.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - stephe-leake.org X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 76.77.182.20 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1kHWJX-001zqG-UT X-Source-Sender: (Takver4) [76.77.182.20]:59202 X-Source-Auth: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org X-Email-Count: 1 X-Source-Cap: c3RlcGhlbGU7c3RlcGhlbGU7aG9zdDIwMDcuaG9zdG1vbnN0ZXIuY29t X-Local-Domain: yes Received-SPF: neutral client-ip=192.185.62.46; envelope-from=stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org; helo=gateway20.websitewelcome.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/13 13:32:56 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -8 X-Spam_score: -0.9 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_INVALID=0.1, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_NEUTRAL=0.779 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255548 Archived-At: =C3=93scar Fuentes writes: > My difficulties for understanding Emacs sources are not related to > formatting to comply with the max line width rule, but to excessive > nesting levels and overly long functions. Yes. > Increasing line width is the wrong approach to fix this deeper problem, > because it would make it worse. It could, yes. The counter argument is that wider lines make it easier to use longer, more descriptive names; 'ada-goto-declaration-start' vs 'ada-to-decl-st', for example. --=20 -- Stephe