-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Aahz wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>>> Why not just skip the specifics except to say < 80 characters for >>>> all >>>> lines? Don't mention 72, 79 or any other number than 80: >> >> Amaury> I often run "svn diff" in a console limited to 80 >> characters. >> Amaury> Because of the leading "+", lines longer than 78 wrap, >> and the >> Amaury> output is more difficult to read. >> >> There will always be certain cases which present probems. I use "svn >> annotate" from time-to-time which adds an even wider margin to the >> left. >> In those situations I either grin and bear it or stretch my window >> enough to >> view it without wrapping. > > Yes, but svn/cvs diff is a particularly common use case. I agree with > Amaury. My main concern is that we have only one line length limit for everything. If we want that to be 78 or 72 or whatever, okay (though I still think 79 works well :) but I don't see much point in there being more than one limit. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR79g/HEjvBPtnXfVAQJCCQP/Qd7nWrSC3Wm6Y4+dPgv0ls1Td3ZTuf7n ZzE6cIiV0h2tgKsS+olRHE2e/ttKNVRask2FPrhUClj4eXG6k3bVU/KsH9JR4wjH Ha1ayDb74ZHqqdSZKrKCcsak5fismBv2Vsn8aDI3eslzFVEd0FF1dU+qQYf/m3je 2gjt9Fx6wYU= =6WAr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
