Re: master 72b1379f079: Increase `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column` to 72

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> This is a misunderstanding: I think it's insignificant
> because we mostly don't pay attention to this
> setting anyway.

Ah, you mean you are not gonna have the byte-compiler,
checkdoc and all complain?

This is not a proposed new convention but _only_ used when
someone tries to fill the docstring?

Then I agree it makes no sense to discuss since the Emacs
programmer will just type the docstring so that it doesn't
overflow. A lot of lines will be closer to 80 chars than 72,
as long as they don't overflow it is all good.

Well, I'm happy you guys weren't as crazy as I thought.
Super short docstrings at 64 chars, the extra space isn't
needed! It all made no sense.

Po Lu, why did you feel so strongly about this? Even if you
had the described problem on smartphones, and even if people
had used it, so many docstrings would still have overflown
majorly. Absolutely nothing to be bothered about since it
won't solve the situation anyway. If it was or wasn't
discussed in a way that upset you, it was probably not meant
as disrespect, rather it was considered a non-issue.

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