From: michael.cadilhac@lrde.org (Michaël Cadilhac)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog conventions: fill-column
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 17:00:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87psieggla.fsf@lrde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3odxyvxm7.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Tue, 16 May 2006 16:43:28 +0200")
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storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> 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 ?
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| Michaël `Micha' Cadilhac | Would someone please DTRT with this |
| Epita/LRDE Promo 2007 | then ACK? |
| http://www.lrde.org/~cadilh_m | -- Richard Stallman |
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-16 12:21 ChangeLog conventions: fill-column Reiner Steib
2006-05-16 14:43 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-16 15:00 ` Michaël Cadilhac [this message]
2006-05-23 18:37 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-23 19:31 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-23 21:31 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-05-23 22:46 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-24 0:24 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-05-24 5:50 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-24 9:13 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-25 0:36 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-16 15:18 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-17 2:10 ` Miles Bader
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