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 1NWRT9-00011s-Fl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:30:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09339E0665; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mo-p05-ob.rzone.de (mo-p05-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D0DE0665 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:30:49 +0000 (UTC) X-RZG-AUTH: :K2kKYU+nW/MMMlTokcN5Yot1/Bj/FTl+WviP6RIJci0HRMpbh/x+X6ShOQvVOj49PSKrpk+P/lRs X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo05 Received: from localhost (p5793F3FB.dip.t-dialin.net [87.147.243.251]) by post.strato.de (fruni mo9) (RZmta 22.6) with ESMTP id m046a2m0H8KELX for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:30:48 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:30:43 +0100 From: Christian Faulhammer To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Fill column Message-ID: <20100117103043.55776971@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <82dd739f1001170047y5e5a445aj3dbb67ddb37c8d5e@mail.gmail.com> References: <2e0007041001131040l7af9e61fsd0e5618305f99a23@mail.gmail.com> <20100113220130.6e2f22c4@gentoo.org> <19282.36075.591.615611@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <82dd739f1001170047y5e5a445aj3dbb67ddb37c8d5e@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/sGNu__G5VEzWwEVJPSxHU3X"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 3fbb3ec6-1ca1-4611-bf43-a3fa65f4f102 X-Archives-Hash: 16707b69d9b84b51eb0c54cfebf53afd --Sig_/sGNu__G5VEzWwEVJPSxHU3X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Ciaran McCreesh : > > 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? >=20 > Oh heck no. There's no excuse for using 70 or 80 columns for source > code any more. My old laptop can fit 100 across the screen > comfortably, which is much cleaner to work with. We don't talk about source code but continous text even if having some mark-up around. And best readability for such text is around 60 characters per line, languages with long words may have more. > This bikeshed does not need repainting bright pink with orange spots. And you don't want us to argue about the colour, right? V-Li --=20 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project , #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode --Sig_/sGNu__G5VEzWwEVJPSxHU3X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktS2McACgkQNQqtfCuFneMuQgCeNkP+2J7gz3bYAELMQe2sY3Az sPMAniOr85ylUBNsgyB/qq+N55gH8GNn =gBZF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/sGNu__G5VEzWwEVJPSxHU3X--