On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 03:45:11PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> writes: > > > On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 11:33:20AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > [...] > > >> There are many existing long lines in this file, so I'm not flagging > >> yours, except for this one, because it increases the maximum. > > > > This line is at exactly 80 characters so checkstyle is happy with it. > > We don't have any requirement for a differenet line limit for docs > > afair ? > > We don't. I'm asking for a favour. > > Humans tend to have trouble following long lines with our eyes (I sure > do). Typographic manuals suggest to limit columns to roughly 60 > characters for exactly that reason[1]. > > 70 is a reasonable compromise between legibility and "writability". For > code, we use 80-90, because there the actual width should still be fine > due to indentation. > > checkpatch.pl doesn't differentiate betwen code and prose. > > This file is already hard to read for me. Please consider not making it > harder.
Ok, no worries, I just didn't understand the rationale. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
