From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase? Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:24:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83wnx8pm0e.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29406"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 26 11:26:07 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6lz-0007WN-E3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:26:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42364 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6ly-0004TC-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6k2-0001Sa-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:24:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60213) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6k1-0000bh-U6; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:24:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6jy-0000ui-5H; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:24:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Philipp Stephani on Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:10:50 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261818 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)