From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:50:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tuw1x016.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28248"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 14 05:52:30 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 1kHfXa-0007HE-0Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 05:52:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45098 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHfXZ-0003Lg-0S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:52:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHfVu-0000xf-MF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44416) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHfVu-0004PV-BW; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kHfVs-0008Dz-Tg; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:50:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tuw1x016.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 13 Sep 2020 15:45:57 +0200) 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:255600 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Now for the most controversial suggestion of all: Make the Emacs code > wider! That will provide some convenience to people who use wide screens but be a big problem for people who use narrow screens. Overall, that amounts to a change for the worse. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)