From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase? Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:21:27 -0400 Message-ID: <871rfgz0a0.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <83wnx8pm0e.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Karl Fogel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19255"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Philipp Stephani , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 23 22:22:06 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 1ksBaA-0004tT-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:22:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53794 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksBa9-0000os-6w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksBZc-0000NE-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:21:32 -0500 Original-Received: from newsp.red-bean.com ([45.79.25.59]:36190 helo=sanpietro.red-bean.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksBZa-0002B2-V5; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:21:32 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=red-bean.com; s=202005newsp; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:Reply-To:References:Subject:Cc:To: From:Sender:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=IQYISarrRxyVUMjEmq4Quvx5H0yMDmoyR1PPU22F1JM=; t=1608758490; x=1609968090; b=ahyPidbV3pzLQNbPTZyUxjW7SmL5zKKafOCP9jiCbn89fPqY435Ti7pxRRDPfHu1iHUd1+Szgb W4nmLJ6dn1PwSWfbhNF8gDabvottDRikE61kkKTT7CJCGRuIUGHwp4qqKekOwr/UIm/OvTiQX2f9M LV7rLo8r9CBgPCcu8QFSWV8y0Na/C4yk0/Um++XHHh9yfhb32DN9YRrH+jmIP8Bq/tZv130QJr0PD dlEFTuT2jYv9M5binXrEU9MAEAmOJSw/J0D9BDOBkieO4pmQfUHnSjNO7oAE48xAXpWHZWq+/1H8G 9D6OhqjXmf2KIcAsW5feMtcu5fsIvYGgAQXXg==; Original-Received: from host-24-89-198-178.public.eastlink.ca ([24.89.198.178]:37698 helo=klen) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ksBZY-0001tI-Ms; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:21:28 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:55:23 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=45.79.25.59; envelope-from=kfogel@red-bean.com; helo=sanpietro.red-bean.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:261641 Archived-At: 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 =E2=89=A4 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. >- =E2=89=A580 columns OTOH should really be rare, limited to the exception= al > cases where the alternative is really worse. Do we want this documented in CONTRIBUTE?