+1 (Actually more like +10) But I think your reasons are not the main problem in solving this issue. For me, when we have whole paragraphs in one line, and I want to see the changes in the document, even adding a comma renders the whole paragraph as changed, which makes the tracking of changes extremely painful.
> On 05 May 2016, at 15:29, Alex Rukletsov <a...@mesosphere.com> wrote: > > What do folks think about introducing a limit for line length in docs? > First off, here are my thoughts against the limit: > * We should be careful about introducing more hurdles, especially for > docs. We want people, also contributors outside the community, to improve > documentation; hence we should make the process easier, or at least not > more complicated. > * People usually render docs locally in a markdown application, that's > why line length is not that crucial like comments length. > > However, I often find myself reading and updating docs from the same editor > I read and write code. In this case, 700+ lines become annoying, see e.g. > [1]. > > My proposal is: > * have an agreement among committers, i.e. put it into "committing.md", > that lines in docs are generally limited to 80 chars; > * refrain from putting this limit in both "markdown-style-guide.md" and > "c++-style-guide.md"; > * sweep-update all existing docs so contributors can follow the pattern. > > [1] > https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/a138e2246a30c4b5c9bc3f7069ad12204dcaffbc/docs/architecture.md
