Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Fr., 25. Dez. 2020 um 23:01 Uhr schrieb <tomas@tuxteam.de>:
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> On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 06:11:57PM +0100, Philipp Stephani wrote:
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> [...]
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> > This seems overly complicated, and people are unlikely to follow
> > complicated rules.
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> I tend to disagree.
>
> > Let's just pick a number and stick to it consistently.
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> That doesn't make much sense, IMO. Most of the time it's
> easy to stick to the recommended 70. More often than not,
> it even helps to nudge oneself into structuring code
> better.

Then why don't we just do that (for new code)? Why do we need two limits?

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> But sometimes (e.g. you have long string literals where
> breaks don't make sense -- but there are other examples),
> it is rather counterproductive to stick religiously to
> that rule.

I'm not talking about such special cases, but about normal code or
comment blocks that could easily be reflowed.

> Honestly, I perceive Stefan's criteria as pretty natural.

I don't.