From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog conventions: fill-column Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 00:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87psieggla.fsf@lrde.org> <87ejykoael.fsf@lrde.org> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148430302 26234 80.91.229.2 (24 May 2006 00:25:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 00:25:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 24 02:24:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FihBJ-00034b-Ii for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 May 2006 02:24:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FihBI-00057N-ID for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 20:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FihB7-00057H-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 20:24:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FihB5-00056r-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 20:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FihB5-00056g-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 20:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FihFP-0007Lj-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 20:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Wed, 24 May 2006 00:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55165 Archived-At: ChangeLogs have 8 chars of indentation on every line, so they can be longer than normal. You mean, after one quoting, they are indented 12 spaces? That distance tells me a ChangeLog is special. Presumably, it does not to you. Doing it in add-log means that it applies to non-emacs change logs too. Doing it in emacs' own change logs applies to emacs only, so it will not interfere with other projects. Well, since I changed the default fill-column for 10 or 15 years (until I decided that Emacs' shorter default made more sense), all I can say is that you can change the default, too. It is a suggestion -- and in my opinion, a very good suggestion for things read on computer monitors. (As far as I am concerned, a shorter line length does make sense for books printed without much interline space.) -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc