From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: msnyder@vmware.com, hjl.tools@gmail.com, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] more comment cleanups
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PZk1B-0000fr-B0@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110103043359.GO2396@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:33:59 +0400)
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:33:59 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, "hjl.tools@gmail.com" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, "mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> > So what do others think about source lines over 70 columns?
>
> Enforcing a maximum length of 70 characters seems awfully low to me.
> It's fine if someone decides to use 70 characters for his comments,
> of even his code, but I think that 76 or 78 would give better results.
If we go for a higher number and want to enforce it (and I'm not
saying we should), we should try to add a suitable setting to the C
source files (in the local variables section), or maybe provide a
.dir-locals.el file, for the benefit of Emacs users. Of course, not
everyone uses Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-03 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-31 23:26 Michael Snyder
[not found] ` <201012312312.oBVNC4fc013647@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
[not found] ` <AANLkTimc4kNHOfO2B95cyKjN9SN1O_+LQ3O_4FpwZ3rR@mail.gmail.com>
2011-01-01 0:20 ` Michael Snyder
2011-01-01 9:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 18:26 ` Michael Snyder
2011-01-03 4:43 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-03 5:06 ` H.J. Lu
2011-01-03 7:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-03 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-03 8:06 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-03 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-03 19:33 ` Doug Evans
2011-01-03 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-03 8:05 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-01-03 20:35 ` Michael Snyder
2011-01-03 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-03 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-01-03 16:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-03 20:37 ` Michael Snyder
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