michael.cadilhac@lrde.org (Michaël Cadilhac) writes: > michael.cadilhac@lrde.org (Michaël Cadilhac) writes: > >> storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: >> >>> Reiner Steib writes: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> recently some people (Stefan, Kim) reformatted my ChangeLog entries. >>>> My `fill-column' in ChangeLog buffers if 74 which is the default from >>>> `change-log-mode'[1]. Am I missing some coding convention for Emacs >>>> ChangeLog files? >>> >>> I don't recall when this started, but we now allow max 79 characters >>> per line in Emacs ChangeLog files (I see a few lines of 80 chars, >>> but I'm not sure that is really ok). >>> >>> IMO, we should have a file-local setting to reflect this. >> >> BTW, what is the rational of setting `fill-column' to 74 ? >> >> AFAIK, such a `fill-column' was used only in mails or news to allow >> easy replies under 80 columns. >> >> I don't see the point here, any clue ? > > Nobody ? If there's no rational, why not put this limit to 79 in > add-log.el ? > > Making this customizable is probably not a good solution, as we > should then, for the sake of consistency, set left-margin, > tab-width, ... to be customizable too. > > Patch attached, if needed. > > Index: lisp/ChangeLog > Index: lisp/add-log.el > Index: lisp/textmodes/ispell.el Of course, the last one has nothing to do with the topic. Sorry. -- | Michaël `Micha' Cadilhac | Pour les 35-40 ans, l'humour | | Epita/LRDE Promo 2007 | c'est une plus-value. | | http://www.lrde.org/~cadilh_m | -- Guillaume L. | `-- - JID: micha@amessage.be --' - --'