From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWMQ3-0003O8-Rj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:07:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17692E05AF; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54FEE05AF for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o0H4775p006016; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:07:07 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o0H4770K026749; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:07:07 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0H477TA026746; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:07:07 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19282.36075.591.615611@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:07:07 +0100 To: Christian Faulhammer Cc: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-pms] Fill column (was: Re: Clarify line continuation in make.defaults) In-Reply-To: <20100113220130.6e2f22c4@gentoo.org> References: <2e0007041001131040l7af9e61fsd0e5618305f99a23@mail.gmail.com> <20100113220130.6e2f22c4@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.0-beta under 23.1.91.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: af6950ec-25d0-42e6-b187-c24c5bc8a4cc X-Archives-Hash: fa9b912d740d8c2285a90d9bf3ca8286 >>>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > A thing I would like to talk about it. Why is the line wrap the way > it is? Emacs always complains and he has the authority regarding line > wrap. Lines with a width of 100 characters are hard to read, therefore I would much prefer a more conventional value like 70 or 72. Maybe with exceptions for some of the tables. A good time for making such a change would be when EAPI 3 is finished. What do you think? Ulrich