From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 15:45:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuw1x016.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
Now for the most controversial suggestion of all: Make the Emacs code
wider!
Emacs has tried to keep the line width of the source code at 80
characters since Emacs was created. It was a good choice (perhaps the
only) back then, but most screens are wide and short these days, and the
folding contortions we have to do to make everything fit in 80
characters is sometimes annoying, and leads to code that's awkward to
read.
So my suggestion is: Change the default to 100.
(This, of course, doesn't mean that we change any of the existing code,
but we stop formatting all new code to fit within 80 columns, and
instead aim for 100 instead.)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-13 13:45 Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-09-13 13:58 ` Changing line widths in the Emacs source code Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 14:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 15:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 16:51 ` Yuan Fu
2020-09-13 16:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 17:55 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-13 18:04 ` arthur miller
2020-09-13 17:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-13 17:54 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-13 14:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-09-13 18:38 ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-09-13 20:13 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-13 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-13 21:23 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-14 0:08 ` Tim Cross
2020-09-13 23:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2020-09-14 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-14 2:28 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-14 7:42 ` tomas
2020-09-14 9:59 ` Alan Third
2020-09-15 7:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 14:53 ` Daniel Martín
2020-09-13 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 17:23 ` Andy Moreton
2020-09-13 17:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 18:07 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-13 15:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-13 14:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-13 17:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-13 17:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-13 17:34 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-16 6:42 ` jeremyb
2020-09-13 15:28 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-13 15:43 ` Óscar Fuentes
2020-09-13 17:07 ` Amin Bandali
2020-09-13 18:01 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-13 18:17 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-14 3:50 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-14 19:25 ` David Koppelman
2020-09-15 8:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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