"Dr. Bas Wijnen" <[email protected]> writes: > Axel writes that README.md and LICENSE are likely valid cases. I > disagree. While I (and I expect many developers in Debian) are used to > using short lines in text files, this is not that common for other > people. Many will use the automatic word-wrap feature of text editors > and write a whole paragraph on a single line.
Or, if not a whole paragraph, there are pretty strong arguments for following https://xkcd.com/1285/ whenever writing in any markup language, including Markdown, which can lead to long lines for complex sentences. That's the standard for our projects at my current employer. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
