michael.cadilhac@lrde.org (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:

> storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> recently some people (Stefan, Kim) reformatted my ChangeLog entries.
>>> My `fill-column' in ChangeLog buffers if 74 which is the default from
>>> `change-log-mode'[1].  Am I missing some coding convention for Emacs
>>> ChangeLog files?
>>
>> I don't recall when this started, but we now allow max 79 characters
>> per line in Emacs ChangeLog files (I see a few lines of 80 chars,
>> but I'm not sure that is really ok).
>>
>> IMO, we should have a file-local setting to reflect this.
>
>   BTW, what is the rational of setting `fill-column' to 74 ?
>
>   AFAIK, such a `fill-column' was used  only in mails or news to allow
>   easy replies under 80 columns.
>
>   I don't see the point here, any clue ?

    Nobody ? If there's no rational, why not put this limit to 79 in
    add-log.el ?

    Making this  customizable is probably  not a good solution,  as we
    should  then,  for  the  sake  of  consistency,  set  left-margin,
    tab-width, ... to be customizable too.

    Patch attached, if needed.