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Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code
From: |
Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:01:22 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (windows-nt) |
Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
> 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.
Yes.
> Increasing line width is the wrong approach to fix this deeper problem,
> because it would make it worse.
It could, yes.
The counter argument is that wider lines make it easier to use longer,
more descriptive names; 'ada-goto-declaration-start' vs
'ada-to-decl-st', for example.
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-- Stephe
- 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, 2020/09/13
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