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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@smrk.net>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] install/README: improve wording
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:54:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231017075428.M329380@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231017091901+0200.985021-stepnem@smrk.net>

Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 06:43:18 +0000
> Eric Wong wrote:
> 
> > -* users using from git or tarballs (and not the OS package manager)
> > +* users running our code from git or tarballs (and not the OS package manager)
> 
> LGTM, but I'd also wrap the line (the text file line length
> norm in the repo seems to lie between 60 and 70; this would
> be 78).

I think it's fine for a standalone lines such as list items to
be up to 80.  While paragraphs get harder to read with more
columns, standalone lines get distracting when wrapped (IMHO).

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-17  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-16 11:33 [PATCH 1/3] doc: fix some typos and grammar Štěpán Němec
2023-10-16 11:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] doc: lei-q: drop stale TODO comment (fixed in 1f1b1f0e22f7) Štěpán Němec
2023-10-16 21:17   ` Eric Wong
2023-10-16 11:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] search: rectify comment (rt: documented since 738c4a65719e) Štěpán Němec
2023-10-16 21:39   ` Eric Wong
2023-10-16 21:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] doc: fix some typos and grammar Eric Wong
2023-10-16 22:16   ` Štěpán Němec
2023-10-17  6:43     ` [PATCH 4/3] install/README: improve wording Eric Wong
2023-10-17  7:19       ` Štěpán Němec
2023-10-17  7:54         ` Eric Wong [this message]
2023-10-17  8:07           ` Štěpán Němec

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