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From: seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino)
Subject: does emacs wrap lines that are exactly 80 characters long??
Date: 29 Oct 2003 11:30:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf23f78f.0310291130.16f9c787@posting.google.com> (raw)

I don't know what this means but Python style guide says to set Emacs to 79
character long lines....

    There are still many devices around that are limited to 80
    character lines; plus, limiting windows to 80 characters makes it
    possible to have several windows side-by-side.  The default
    wrapping on such devices looks ugly.  Therefore, please limit all
    lines to a maximum of 79 characters (Emacs wraps lines that are
    exactly 80 characters long).  For flowing long blocks of text
    (docstrings or comments), limiting the length to 72 characters is
    recommended.

I don't seem to have a problem with 80 char long lines.  Maybe I'm missing something
here??

Chris

             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-29 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-29 19:30 Christian Seberino [this message]
2003-10-29 20:02 ` does emacs wrap lines that are exactly 80 characters long?? Barry Margolin
2003-10-30  1:51   ` Christian Seberino
2003-10-30 17:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-30 17:33     ` Arthur Davis

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