Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code

[Stephen Leake]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> My difficulties for understanding Emacs sources are not related to
> formatting to comply with the max line width rule, but to excessive
> nesting levels and overly long functions.

Yes.

> Increasing line width is the wrong approach to fix this deeper problem,
> because it would make it worse.

It could, yes.

The counter argument is that wider lines make it easier to use longer,
more descriptive names; 'ada-goto-declaration-start' vs
'ada-to-decl-st', for example.

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