-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Aahz wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, skip@pobox.com 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-----