From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "seberino@spawar.navy.mil" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: best to have max width of 79 or 80 in source code? Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:10:29 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <30ea20ec-ffcb-4ea1-a7d8-14e1caed696f@r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228074048 27092 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2008 19:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:40:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 20:41:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L6sAx-0003fj-31 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:41:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6s9n-00075d-0y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:40:39 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.57.68.26 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1228072230 11455 127.0.0.1 (30 Nov 2008 19:10:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=72.57.68.26; posting-account=VkuUtQkAAADKqMjRUmZTNs7a8uCSNNy2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164933 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60262 Archived-At: Many try to keep their source code to a max width of around 80. Someone recommended 79 for some reason but I can't remember why. Is it because you need to allow another column for newline? (I think there is a good reason for 79 but for the life of me I can't remember what it is.) Chris