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Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code
From: |
Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:43:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Now for the most controversial suggestion of all: Make the Emacs code
> wider!
>
> Emacs has tried to keep the line width of the source code at 80
> characters since Emacs was created. It was a good choice (perhaps the
> only) back then, but most screens are wide and short these days, and the
> folding contortions we have to do to make everything fit in 80
> characters is sometimes annoying, and leads to code that's awkward to
> read.
>
> So my suggestion is: Change the default to 100.
My difficulties for understanding Emacs sources are not related to
formatting to comply with the max line width rule, but to excessive
nesting levels and overly long functions.
Increasing line width is the wrong approach to fix this deeper problem,
because it would make it worse.
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, (continued)
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/13
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2020/09/13
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code,
Óscar Fuentes <=
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/13
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, David Koppelman, 2020/09/14
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Lars Brinkhoff, 2020/09/15