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

[Michael Albinus]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Yuri,

>> In Lisp code, I break such long strings into substrings, wrapped by concat.
>> Just for the better readability with 80 columns.
>
> I’m used to doing the same, but some coding style guides present a
> good reason to avoid doing that[1]:
>
>     6.2: Strings that cause the line to go over 100 characters
>     should not be written across multiple lines using string concatenation.
>
>     > Why? Broken strings are painful to work with
>     > and make code less searchable.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript#strings--line-length
>
> I have actually found myself trying to grep for an error message ang
> failing to find it in code at first try because it was line-broken at
> a non-obvious point.

Yes, it is always a trade-off. However, I'm failing to find error
messages in the code much more often because they are produced by
format, which could be banned for the same reason.

Best regards, Michael.