Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry if this is hijacking your thread, but shouldn't it better be 80
> characters?

I think somebody decided at some point that 70 was the proper text with
for prose, and that's independent of what the screen looks like, or how
wide it is...

Perhaps it comes from email?  70 allow a few >>> rounds before the text
becomes too wide.

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