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: master 72b1379f079: Increase `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column` to 72 Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:44:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87il36mevf.fsf@yahoo.com> <4a52da5c-2252-4956-b6b2-b452e5be8c9f@alphapapa.net> <875xz5nb2h.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o7cxlsgv.fsf@yahoo.com> <4f458997-0720-48c0-a075-0a1150d1985e@alphapapa.net> <874jep7mm2.fsf@dataswamp.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="11956"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 04 05:45:21 2024 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 1rWUNd-0002sy-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2024 05:45:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rWUNG-0000kl-Gj; Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:44:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rWUNE-0000kU-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:44:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rWUND-0000pZ-6w; Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:44:55 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=ihkp1p+qUpttbeoopGtc3v7S2Q4EaFDmZqbDWuYRgxM=; b=YMBTfJ/uPh5v O22tvVCsfsoxGZCgGB8FoAl+zpcaOG8g+3Qx5qeOL7aydakHJgBIT8T4Z/eRO/1u1BelZciBXaTnF 4yWxoU01653zpxNXoy1p2lAM1771htVfdQBhEmS5QKLwnjtbv1+cDZ2j2hWPgA6OHqwFRnJiC5DnH cuPIyIR45dOLejeopCT7v7mqLFMlo0qK17ydKDobP1e42dQNpRVXULPFO8M/Glb5yaqlVnij712be PAnmIOf5+f3cKvyC+uaMGBRMiVWO4RKaCmNaxApEtY/fxW8RlNPNPrpXe0gHDonm0167KlU+xyS6k S6ajQwiqPmDW7u6lGirPzg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rWUNC-0000Cg-Li; Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:44:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874jep7mm2.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Sat, 03 Feb 2024 13:34:13 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:315848 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. ]]] > Many of my docstrings are closer to 80 cols than 72 BTW, just > think what insane work, trimming all that down to 64 in > solidarity with Android GNU Emacs users. Text on a terminal viewed in Emacs needs to fit in 79 columns. But sometimes text gets indented a few columns. So it is not good to use all 79 colunms, Please make doc strings fit easily. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)