netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] wireguard: reformat to 100 column lines

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Message-ID: <CAHmME9pf7i6u4UXS0eJ_YN8q5K2wtUx0iAS+rb4b=7FiWJNwKQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 1 Jun 2020 05:18:36 -0600
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] wireguard: reformat to 100 column lines

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 5:12 AM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> Newspaper columns are pretty narrow for a reason.
>
> Please remember that left to right scanning of text, especially for
> comments, is not particularly improved by longer lines.

I agree that extra long lines make reading text impossible -- 500 is
madness, for example -- but 100 columns is a marked improvement over
80 in reading quickly for me, where I can take in more text on one
glance. I regularly will reformat long emails in vim with gq, and I'm
not the only one who does that; it was a nice suggestion made to me
years ago.

Either way, I would prefer not to bikeshed these minutia. If you want
to impose a different column limit for comments than for the rest of
the code, I suggest you bring that up in the original thread where
Linus was discussing this stuff and codify it there as part of the
style guide. Please don't derail this patch before net-next closes
tomorrow; that will make things a larger headache than necessary.

Jason