From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 72b1379f079: Increase `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column` to 72
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 13:20:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wmrl3ib6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttmplvar.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:02:52 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:02:52 +0800
>
> > So I think this setting should affect almost no one, and making a
> > showcase out of this change just misses the entire point of the
> > "December's debacle". We have more important stuff to discuss than
> > this insignificant detail.
>
> Before responding, I tried to measure the impact of this change by
> running:
>
> (mapatoms (lambda (atom)
> (when (functionp atom)
> (and (documentation atom)
> (insert (documentation atom) "\n")))))
>
> in a buffer, with the fill column set to 72, and typing C-x h M-q. Upon
> restoring the fill column to 64 and enabling the fill column indicator,
> the number of lines and words beyond it increased visibly. So this is
> not so insignificant a detail.
This is a misunderstanding: I think it's insignificant because we
mostly don't pay attention to this setting anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-03 11:20 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20240202123506.0CEC7C0EFF5@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2024-02-02 14:02 ` master 72b1379f079: Increase `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column` to 72 Po Lu
2024-02-02 14:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-02-03 3:00 ` Po Lu
2024-02-03 3:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 7:43 ` Po Lu
2024-02-03 8:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-03 9:45 ` Po Lu
2024-02-03 10:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-03 9:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-03 11:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-03 12:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 8:04 ` Adam Porter
2024-02-03 8:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 9:36 ` Po Lu
2024-02-03 10:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 10:28 ` Adam Porter
2024-02-03 10:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 11:04 ` Po Lu
2024-02-03 11:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 11:45 ` Adam Porter
2024-02-03 12:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-04 4:44 ` Richard Stallman
2024-02-04 5:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-07 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2024-02-03 11:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 13:43 ` Eric S Fraga
2024-02-03 21:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-02-03 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-03 10:02 ` Po Lu
2024-02-03 10:16 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-03 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-03 12:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-03 21:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-02-03 23:14 ` Po Lu
2024-02-04 1:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-04 1:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-02 14:35 ` Emanuel Berg
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