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

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> I'm less opposed to this change in itself than to how it
>> was fast-tracked into Emacs by one individual citing an
>> inconclusive discussion a year removed.
>
> I'm surprised that you are opposed to something that has
> close to no effect on the doc strings.

It will have an 8 char or +12.5% effect on the doc strings.

This is 64 chars:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This is 72 chars:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> It sounds like another bikeshedding to me.

On the contrary - as shown, the increase from 64 or 72 can be
counted, computed, and illustrated.

72 is also a better number because it is the original
US teletypewriter standard, from where it went to become
a general computer standard (including our own info pages, as
was mentioned by other posters).

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