Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

> I don't agree with this suggestion, at least as it is written. If the
> existing code won't change, then we will have parts of the codebase with
> a different style than others. The goal of having a code style is not
> much about the individual decisions, but about consistency.

Nope -- in the Emacs tree, we're all about not making needless stylistic
changes, really.  That's why we don't make white space changes, and we
don't change one-form `if' statements into `when' across the board.

We just live with it, and write the new code using whatever standard
we've settled on.

> Also, what would happen if you change code in an existing file? Would
> you need to fit it in 80 columns, 100 columns?

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking -- we never change the
formatting of anything (unless we rewrite the code), so nothing changes.

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