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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:07:56 +0900 From: Miles Bader <miles@....org> To: Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, apw@...onical.com, jschopp@...tin.ibm.com, davej@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the punch card limit Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net> writes: > The time of 80 characters punch card and terminals are over, so i would > be a good thing to set the line length limit to 120. Every display today > should be able handle this. And it think it make formated source code > more readable. > > For everybody who want know: The 80 column limit of a terminal comes > from the punch cards, which stored exact 80 characters. It doesn't really matter where it came from, what matters is whether people still commonly use 80-column windows or not. I know people that only ever use one (huuuge) full-screen editor window with small fonts, and can happily view lines that are 300 characters long (of course, the right 80% of that window is almost always completely blank...). In my case, I use 80-column windows because (1) it allows me to have two editor/terminal windows side-by-side with a reasonable font-size on a typical display, (2) it reduces the amount of wasted blank space in editor/terminal windows that you'd have if you made your windows really wide just for the very occasional wide line, and (3) it's, well, standard, or at least as much of a standard as we have, which is useful when interacting with other people. Anyway, I think the vague consensus seems to be that it's OK to go over 80 chars in many cases, but that it may be an indicator that some refactoring is in order.... -Miles -- 80% of success is just showing up. --Woody Allen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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