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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:59:54 +0100
From:      Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Line length limit suggestion in the FDP primer
Message-ID:  <20041107235954.GI92955@sumuk.de>
In-Reply-To: <20041107223028.GA1505@gothmog.gr>
References:  <20041107223028.GA1505@gothmog.gr>

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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:30:29AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 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).

It doesn't bother me much, but limiting to 70 characters
makes it easy to add a missing word or a missing tag.
You could do that with 78 characters too, but more commits
will then be followed by a whitespace clean up.

-- 
Marxpitn



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