From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 00:11:27 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 68E0516A4CF for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:11:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nic.ach.sch.gr (nic.sch.gr [194.63.238.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D23943D46 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:11:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 23655 invoked by uid 207); 8 Nov 2004 00:11:25 -0000 Received: from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr by nic by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (sophie: 3.04/2.19/3.81. Clear:RC:1(81.186.70.61):. Processed in 0.453509 secs); 08 Nov 2004 00:11:25 -0000 Received: from dialup61.ach.sch.gr (HELO gothmog.gr) ([81.186.70.61]) (envelope-sender ) by nic.sch.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 8 Nov 2004 00:11:23 -0000 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iA80BKCm033209 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:11:20 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iA80BKQg033208 for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:11:20 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:11:20 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041108001119.GA31524@gothmog.gr> References: <20041107223028.GA1505@gothmog.gr> <20041107235954.GI92955@sumuk.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041107235954.GI92955@sumuk.de> Subject: Re: Line length limit suggestion in the FDP primer X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:11:27 -0000 On 2004-11-08 00:59, Martin Heinen 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.