From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Source code formatting: line length limit? Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:32:27 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84ptqlflp7.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043636314 25979 80.91.224.249 (27 Jan 2003 02:58:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18czTl-0006kt-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:58:33 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18czXl-0006ig-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 04:02:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cz8L-0002WO-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:36:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cz6I-00029k-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:34:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cz5X-00020J-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:33:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cz4k-0001s2-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:32:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18cz4V-0001sS-00; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:32:27 -0500 Original-To: bob@gnu.org In-reply-to: (bob@rattlesnake.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11111 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11111 I think that program code should usually have less than 40 characters of real text on a line. But that is not counting the line's indentation. Sometimes it is hard to avoid getting out towards column 80.