Am 24.07.2011 00:02, schrieb Francois Gouget: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, André Hentschel wrote: > [...] >> - Code is usually limited to 80 columns. This helps prevent >> - mailers mangling patches by line wrap. Also it generally >> + Code is usually limited to 100 columns. It generally > > I'd prefer to keep the 80 columns recommandation. > > With 80 columns one can nicely fit files side by side on a laptop with a > typical 1024 horizontal resolution whereas with 100 colums one would end > up with the hair comb effect thus making the code unreadable. Also 100 > seems close enough to 80 that I'm not sure it actually provides any of > the benefits that longer lines are supposed to provide (if they are > supposed to provide any).
I see your point, but looking at the code it's already quite often around 100 and AJ also stated that 100 is more or less the actual limit. Otherwise i wouldn't have sent the patch. -- Best Regards, André Hentschel
