From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: does emacs wrap lines that are exactly 80 characters long?? Date: 29 Oct 2003 17:51:23 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067481356 5806 80.91.224.253 (30 Oct 2003 02:35:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 03:35:52 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AF2fA-0007F7-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:35:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AF2dp-0007VE-6d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:34:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.253.72.211 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1067478683 13443 127.0.0.1 (30 Oct 2003 01:51:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117697 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13631 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13631 So if I understand you correctly, 80 char long lines WERE a problem in 80 char long windows PRIOR TO VERSION 21 because of the slash at the end?? But, in current version of Emacs and beyond this is not a problem anymore and I don't need to have <= 79 char wide l lines?? Chris Barry Margolin wrote in message news:... > In article , > Christian Seberino wrote: > >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?? > > What size is your window? The comment is probably referring to Emacs being > used on a traditional 24x80 terminal. With a window system, you can change > the window size, and the wrapping will be appropriate to that size. > > Also, prior to Emacs 21, Emacs wasted a column for the "\" character that's > used to indicate that a line has wrapped (Emacs 21 replaced this with a > marker closer to the window border). So a line that's exactly the window's > width would be wrapped -- the first n-1 characters would be on the line, > then there would be a "\", and then the next line would contain the nth > character.