From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:24:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kt6jy-0000ui-5H@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkQYF6WZ20OLYyrTXUHd-eqg-=jZCRr7RB_9EqWsyP_XUg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:10:50 +0100)
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> > 70 is it, we just don't necessarily enforce it religously.
> >
> > Where did you see significant deviations from that standard?
> Everywhere? When I last counted there were more than 1900 files in the
> codebase that have lines longer than 70 characters. In src/emacs.c
> alone there are over 160 such lines.
Why argue about how rigid to be? Relax, please.
If you see a clean way to eliminate some of those overlong lines,
please do it. That way, we will move towards having fewer annoyingly
long lines, and we will avoid the need to adopt a rule about it.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-26 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-23 9:58 What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase? Philipp Stephani
2020-12-23 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-23 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-23 21:21 ` Karl Fogel
2020-12-24 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-25 17:11 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-25 17:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-26 11:02 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-26 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-27 5:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-25 20:32 ` tomas
2020-12-26 10:38 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-26 11:17 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-26 11:22 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-26 11:36 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-26 12:21 ` tomas
2020-12-26 18:31 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-26 11:12 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-25 17:10 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-25 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-26 11:09 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-26 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-26 10:24 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-12-26 11:04 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-26 18:43 ` Drew Adams
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