Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:59:54 +0100 From: Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Line length limit suggestion in the FDP primer Message-ID: <20041107235954.GI92955@sumuk.de> In-Reply-To: <20041107223028.GA1505@gothmog.gr> References: <20041107223028.GA1505@gothmog.gr>
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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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