From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 23:59:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85AC816A4CE; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:59:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Kain.sumuk.de (Kain.sumuk.de [213.221.86.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC8D543D41; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:59:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vincent@sumuk.de) Received: from Goliath.earth.sol (Goliath.earth.sol [192.168.1.6]) by Kain.sumuk.de (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iA7NxsvM014914; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:59:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent@sumuk.de) Received: from Goliath.earth.sol (localhost.earth.sol [127.0.0.1]) by Goliath.earth.sol (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iA7NxsnJ096030; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:59:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent@Goliath.earth.sol) Received: (from vincent@localhost) by Goliath.earth.sol (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iA7Nxsar096029; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:59:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:59:54 +0100 From: Martin Heinen To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20041107235954.GI92955@sumuk.de> References: <20041107223028.GA1505@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041107223028.GA1505@gothmog.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Line length limit suggestion in the FDP primer X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:59:56 -0000 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