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: master 72b1379f079: Increase `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column` to 72 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:12:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87il36mevf.fsf@yahoo.com> <4a52da5c-2252-4956-b6b2-b452e5be8c9f@alphapapa.net> <875xz5nb2h.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o7cxlsgv.fsf@yahoo.com> <4f458997-0720-48c0-a075-0a1150d1985e@alphapapa.net> <874jep7mm2.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87o7cw6c60.fsf@dataswamp.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="15251"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 07 04:13:07 2024 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 1rXYMz-0003eT-Pr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:13:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rXYMe-0004Mj-Uk; Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:12:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rXYMd-0004Lc-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:12:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rXYMb-0004k9-SL; Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:12:41 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=hNpCzSaRivoRr9V7aOsNnl8KgP8rOmErUHtgmWDP5MY=; b=AaJTD1vFdh+b eO8gN+8MRSCB967DYQGOASTfp1Jd3qcUAYus73fxNyZNGbGFzjhuXl0s9SV9cxe6Md1GW0XhcpUho 9XVwYD8ixkZrzM2SlC5ggAK+jECjnqcXxoud2ufPeoU+V4w3FOBhOvMnrH6oX3yj48/rzac30SBHX WFmZEgt+tFWAvgXpc2GQ3rtBmIalv28CYavNptu5N0bBF43VC65/B5M+h/qx4etJAEL/ZmHv7avgV oAfV/O5KAxRhOkIFQA5Fse0h66WVDXQOM3gNoq3IFCFrijwTGF7DKYiFW0Q8DkUj+in6D1CKLn8QF JJm7C35+0YBUSzcTE1L1Fg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rXYMb-0000eq-9w; Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:12:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87o7cw6c60.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Sun, 04 Feb 2024 06:17:27 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:315960 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. ]]] > If you would say a definite number, maybe it is something for > checkdoc to detect and complain about? I don't recall all the factors that went into this decisio, over a decade ago. I just wanted to remind people of one specific factor that we shouldn't overlook. Another pertinent factor is hat making the maximum width customizable would not solve anything. The reason to have this convention is to get all Emacs Lisp developers to format their doc strings in such a way that users in general won't have problems reading those doc strings. Sure, different users may have different needs in regard to maximum width of doc strings they read -- for rational reasons. But we can only have one convention about this, and letting different developers follow different conventions is not a solution. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)