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

[tomas]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 06:36:29PM +0700, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 18:22, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:

[break long strings to honour max source line width]

> > > I have actually found myself trying to grep for an error message ang
> > > failing to find it in code at first try because it was line-broken at
> > > a non-obvious point.
> >
> > Yes, it is always a trade-off. However, I'm failing to find error
> > messages in the code much more often because they are produced by
> > format, which could be banned for the same reason.
> 
> When you see an error message, most of the time, it’s easy to see
> which parts are constant text and which are substituted variable text.
> Whereas line breaks could be anywhere.
> 
> When I break string literals to fit line length limits, I go for any
> embedded \n first, then sentence boundaries [...]

That' similar to what I do. Suffice it to say that these are often
moments of great agony :)

Cheers
 - t

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