Re: What's the line length limit in the Emacs codebase?

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Mi., 23. Dez. 2020 um 16:42 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
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> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 10:58:32 +0100
> >
> > There seem to be conflicting settings for the line length limit in the
> > Emacs codebase: .dir-locals.el sets fill-column to 70, but large areas
> > of the source code (including comments) seem to use 80. Can we pick
> > one value and use it consistently (for new/changed code)?
>
> 70 is it, we just don't necessarily enforce it religously.
>
> Where did you see significant deviations from that standard?

Everywhere? When I last counted there were more than 1900 files in the
codebase that have lines longer than 70 characters. In src/emacs.c
alone there are over 160 such lines.