From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase? Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 05:37:53 +0200 Message-ID: <835z4rq3fy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wnx8pm0e.fsf@gnu.org> <871rfgz0a0.fsf@red-bean.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39522"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 24 04:39:29 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ksHTN-000ABq-8L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 04:39:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38316 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksHTM-0004KT-AT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:39:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45946) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksHS4-0003mg-UD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:38:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksHS3-0001op-Uk; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:38:07 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3598 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ksHS2-0002Z9-E2; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:38:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <871rfgz0a0.fsf@red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:21:27 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261650 Archived-At: > From: Karl Fogel > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Philipp Stephani , > 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.