Gentoo Archives: gentoo-pms

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Fill column
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:36:33
Message-Id: 82dd739f1001170636o71efa3c8qc2f4d754a6717411@mail.gmail.com
1 2010/1/17 Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>:
2 >  git blame breakage is no argument here, as the initial import damages
3 > that anyway.
4
5 No, that's still useful, since it shows things that've been around
6 since the beginning and that haven't been tidied up.
7
8 > Usually everyone agrees on 80 characters
9
10 80 characters is for people who use dumb terminals that don't support
11 any other size. It's annoyingly restrictive for anything else.
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13 > Derivating from that must be justified better than "it fits my screen".
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15 No, changing it from what it is currently requires better
16 justification than "a piece of hardware that no-one's used for twenty
17 years does it that way".
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19 Also, please stop stealthily changing bits of wrapping as you go
20 along. That's even worse.
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22 --
23 Ciaran McCreesh