On Thursday, January 6, 2005 11:48 am, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:42:52 -0800, Jesse Barnes > >>>>> <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> said: > >> > >> Well, I don't like how you "fixed" some of them and I continue > >> to be of the opinion that 100 cols is OK (yes, I know that > >> somebody managed to get the 80 cols into the kernel formatting > >> document, but that doesn't change reality...). > > Jesse> Yeah, I know, but your opinion is wrong :) I often find > Jesse> myself editing files on VTs or other 80 col terminals, and > Jesse> long lines are a pain... > > It's not opinion, it's reality. Unless someone goes through all the > files in the top-level directories and formats them to 80 cols, this > won't change. I'd be happy to do that if you're ok with it. The long lines have always irritated me a little. I think I understand why you like them though--with long lines you can fit slightly more code on the screen vertically, which can be a help, but I don't think they're common enough for that to be very compelling... Jesse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Jan 6 14:58:58 2005
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