From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "seberino@spawar.navy.mil" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: best to have max width of 79 or 80 in source code? Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:45:13 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <30ea20ec-ffcb-4ea1-a7d8-14e1caed696f@r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228099255 27628 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2008 02:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 02:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 01 03:41:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L6yjV-00067Q-2i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:41:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6yiK-0007ZD-MX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:40:44 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w1g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.57.68.26 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1228095914 29337 127.0.0.1 (1 Dec 2008 01:45:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 01:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w1g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=72.57.68.26; posting-account=VkuUtQkAAADKqMjRUmZTNs7a8uCSNNy2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164944 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60271 Archived-At: On Nov 30, 12:50=A0pm, Xah Lee wrote: > in my opinion, hard wrappnig lines or in general any manual code > formatting is a major damage in computing, to the degree that > influenced bad tools and language design which forces humans to think > and do what dumb machines can easily automate. The line wrapping > convention largely spurred the perpetual time wasted on arguing about > code formatting and tools about it. I read some of the links you posted. I like idea of Emacs automagically handling wrapping but one of those links seemed to suggest that C and Python and Perl weren't amenable to this. cs