From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Source code formatting: line length limit?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:14:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301271414.h0REEiJ30650@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m18cmai-000IeGC@localhost
> An 80 column text looks terrible when patched or quoted so as to be
> wider, but still shown on an 80 column window. Consequently, an 80
That's tru for text but much less for code because the length of
the lines is typically a lot more variable, so if the whole
code fits within 80 columns, that means that typically very few lines
will overflow after quoting.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-27 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-25 12:39 Source code formatting: line length limit? Kai Großjohann
2003-01-25 13:26 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-01-26 1:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-26 13:12 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-01-27 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-27 14:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-01-26 14:48 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-26 18:49 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-01-27 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-27 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
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