bug#47775: First line length and GNU coding standards....

[Stefan Kangas]

Marco Antoniotti <marco.antoniotti@unimib.it> writes:

> Bottom line, this is just a bit of a rant, but I really like my (and,
> I believe, many other old geezers') style of having something like
>
> ;;; -*- Mode: Emacs-Lisp; lexical-binding: t; some-var-with-a-long-name: t -*-
> ;;; foo.el --- The foo pkg, which also happens to have description 79 col 
> long.

Within N years, we will hopefully flip the switch and enable
lexical-binding by default, thereby (mostly) eliminating the problem.
So I would propose living with this wart.  Just my two cents.

(BTW, is there any code out there that relies on the first line being
formatted as before?)