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Re: ChangeLog conventions: fill-column
From: |
Michaël Cadilhac |
Subject: |
Re: ChangeLog conventions: fill-column |
Date: |
Tue, 23 May 2006 21:31:30 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
> address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>>
>>> Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> recently some people (Stefan, Kim) reformatted my ChangeLog entries.
>>>> My `fill-column' in ChangeLog buffers if 74 which is the default from
>>>> `change-log-mode'[1]. Am I missing some coding convention for Emacs
>>>> ChangeLog files?
>>>
>>> I don't recall when this started, but we now allow max 79 characters
>>> per line in Emacs ChangeLog files (I see a few lines of 80 chars,
>>> but I'm not sure that is really ok).
>>>
>>> IMO, we should have a file-local setting to reflect this.
>>
>> BTW, what is the rational of setting `fill-column' to 74 ?
>>
>> AFAIK, such a `fill-column' was used only in mails or news to allow
>> easy replies under 80 columns.
>>
>> I don't see the point here, any clue ?
>
> Nobody ? If there's no rational, why not put this limit to 79 in
> add-log.el ?
>
> Making this customizable is probably not a good solution, as we
> should then, for the sake of consistency, set left-margin,
> tab-width, ... to be customizable too.
>
> Patch attached, if needed.
>
> Index: lisp/ChangeLog
> Index: lisp/add-log.el
> Index: lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
Of course, the last one has nothing to do with the topic. Sorry.
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Re: ChangeLog conventions: fill-column, Reiner Steib, 2006/05/16
Re: ChangeLog conventions: fill-column, Miles Bader, 2006/05/16