On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> That could be pretty hard to do for all messages.
> Especially messages with embedded data
>
> eg: "%s is missing %s required use flag..." % ('sys-apps/foo', 'bar')
For that case we could use:
"%s is missing %s required use flag..." % \
% ('sys-apps/foo', 'bar')
> I know I don't always enforce the line length for a few characters,
> also when clarity is more important than line length.
I totally agree with that.
> We could also increase the max. line length to something like 120 or 130.
I think more people should chime in on that. I use vertical splits for
the screen when coding, and 120 characters is too long for me, but if
the preferred width ends up changing to 120 or 130 I can work with it.
