Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:30:29 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Line length limit suggestion in the FDP primer Message-ID: <20041107223028.GA1505@gothmog.gr>
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The style guide of the FDP primer mentions using 70-column lines. IMHO, this is too short, as I mentioned to a personal email exchange with Tillman Hodgson a few days back. A line length of 78 columns is probably ok these days (I usually run terminals much wider, but I don't have a problem with keeping this under the 80-column limit). Any objections against the following patch (submitted by Tillman)? : Index: writing-style/chapter.sgml : =================================================================== : RCS file: /exports/doc/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml,v : retrieving revision 1.40 : diff -u -r1.40 chapter.sgml : --- writing-style/chapter.sgml 22 Sep 2004 18:04:52 -0000 1.40 : +++ writing-style/chapter.sgml 4 Nov 2004 21:53:09 -0000 : @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ : : <programlisting>augroup sgmledit : autocmd FileType sgml set formatoptions=cq2l " Special formatting options : - autocmd FileType sgml set textwidth=70 " Wrap lines at 70 spaces : + autocmd FileType sgml set textwidth=78 " Wrap lines at 78 columns : autocmd FileType sgml set shiftwidth=2 " Automatically indent : autocmd FileType sgml set softtabstop=2 " Tab key indents 2 spaces : autocmd FileType sgml set tabstop=8 " Replace 8 spaces with a tab
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