From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:23:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wo0xlher.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877dsxlo0h.fsf@gnus.org
On Sun 13 Sep 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:
>
>> I don't agree with this suggestion, at least as it is written. If the
>> existing code won't change, then we will have parts of the codebase with
>> a different style than others. The goal of having a code style is not
>> much about the individual decisions, but about consistency.
>
> Nope -- in the Emacs tree, we're all about not making needless stylistic
> changes, really. That's why we don't make white space changes, and we
> don't change one-form `if' statements into `when' across the board.
And this is exactly why changing line length is a bad idea. Any code
which requires overlong lines is usually clearer and more maintainable if
rewritten to use shorter lines, and helper routines if needed.
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-13 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-13 13:45 Changing line widths in the Emacs source code Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 13:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 14:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 15:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 16:51 ` Yuan Fu
2020-09-13 16:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 17:55 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-13 18:04 ` arthur miller
2020-09-13 17:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-13 17:54 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-13 14:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-09-13 18:38 ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-09-13 20:13 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-13 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-13 21:23 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-14 0:08 ` Tim Cross
2020-09-13 23:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2020-09-14 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-14 2:28 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-14 7:42 ` tomas
2020-09-14 9:59 ` Alan Third
2020-09-15 7:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 14:53 ` Daniel Martín
2020-09-13 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 17:23 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2020-09-13 17:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 18:07 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-13 15:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-13 14:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-13 17:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-13 17:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-13 17:34 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-16 6:42 ` jeremyb
2020-09-13 15:28 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-13 15:43 ` Óscar Fuentes
2020-09-13 17:07 ` Amin Bandali
2020-09-13 18:01 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-13 18:17 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-14 3:50 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-14 19:25 ` David Koppelman
2020-09-15 8:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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