Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:11:20 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Line length limit suggestion in the FDP primer Message-ID: <20041108001119.GA31524@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20041107235954.GI92955@sumuk.de> References: <20041107223028.GA1505@gothmog.gr> <20041107235954.GI92955@sumuk.de>
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On 2004-11-08 00:59, Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de> wrote: > 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. Ah, yes. There's a good point there; at least as far as missing words are concerned. With most tags having at least 2 characters in their name, the addition of a tag usually exceeds the 78-column limit anyway (since the opening and closing tags are almost invariably more than 8 characters), so this isn't of similarly great importance, but you have a point there too.
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