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: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase? Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83wnx8pm0e.fsf@gnu.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="22764"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 06:43:21 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 1ktOps-0005pB-Tm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 06:43:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47278 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOpr-0003uk-Vp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:43:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOlV-000781-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45403) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOlU-0003Wg-KN; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOlK-0007Ik-HY; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Philipp Stephani on Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:02:09 +0100) 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:261890 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. ]]] > Nowhere, it's more of a question. I don't intend to introduce a > strictly enforced rule, but just having a statement saying "stay > within 70 columns until there are good reasons (mostly long URLs) > otherwise" would provide some guidance to people editing the codebase. I think that's a good statement -- not rigid, and no need to argue about how to "obey" it. -- 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)