16 Nov
2012
16 Nov
'12
2:44 p.m.
Sorry for the OT ...
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 20:01 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
They slipped through the review, most probably. There's no hard rule, the 80-char limit just makes the code more readable for people like me who like to split their terminals vertically.
Although I am not an emacs user I find this page exaplains very well why 80 columns are used and gives you a better understanding of why I pushed hard to have this rule in the coding style: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EightyColumnRule
It's a bit more than "because I like it" :-)
Simo.
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