Line length limit suggestion in the FDP primer

Martin Heinen martin at sumuk.de
Sun Nov 7 23:59:56 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:30:29AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> The style guide of the FDP primer mentions using 70-column lines.  IMHO, this
> is too short, as I mentioned to a personal email exchange with Tillman Hodgson
> a few days back.  A line length of 78 columns is probably ok these days (I
> usually run terminals much wider, but I don't have a problem with keeping this
> under the 80-column limit).

It doesn't bother me much, but limiting to 70 characters
makes it easy to add a missing word or a missing tag.
You could do that with 78 characters too, but more commits
will then be followed by a whitespace clean up.

-- 
Marxpitn



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