From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 05:37:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835z4rq3fy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rfgz0a0.fsf@red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:21:27 -0400)
> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:21:27 -0400
>
> On 23 Dec 2020, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >Indeed. I'd say that we it's a kind of progressive limit:
> >- it's OK to have all lines ≤ 70-columns wide
> >- it's not OK to have most lines >70-columns
> >- we tolerate reaching the area between 70 and 80 columns every once in
> > a while, tho.
> >- ≥80 columns OTOH should really be rare, limited to the exceptional
> > cases where the alternative is really worse.
>
> Do we want this documented in CONTRIBUTE?
Sounds too minor to be mentioned there. CONTRIBUTE already has too
many minor details, which makes it harder to read and follow.
We have .dir-locals.el for that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-24 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-23 9:58 What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase? Philipp Stephani
2020-12-23 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-23 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-23 21:21 ` Karl Fogel
2020-12-24 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-12-25 17:11 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-25 17:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-26 11:02 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-26 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-27 5:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-25 20:32 ` tomas
2020-12-26 10:38 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-26 11:17 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-26 11:22 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-26 11:36 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-26 12:21 ` tomas
2020-12-26 18:31 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-26 11:12 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-25 17:10 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-25 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-26 11:09 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-26 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-26 10:24 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 11:04 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-26 18:43 ` Drew Adams
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