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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:255544 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Stefan Kangas writes: > >> Sorry if this is hijacking your thread, but shouldn't it better be 80 >> characters? > > I think somebody decided at some point that 70 was the proper text with > for prose, and that's independent of what the screen looks like, or how > wide it is... That means indented comment paragraphs are narrower then unindented ones; that gets very awkward at large indents. In ada-mode, the width of a comment paragraph is independent of the indent; I think that looks much better. The implementation sets fill-column for each paragraph depending on indent, just before it is filled. -- -- Stephe