Messages in this thread | | | Date | 04 Oct 2002 19:29:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: [Evms-devel] Re: EVMS Submission for 2.5 |
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corryk@us.ibm.com (Kevin Corry) wrote on 04.10.02 in <02100408071900.02266@boiler>:
> On Friday 04 October 2002 08:06, Alan Cox wrote:
> > IMHO the Lindent script is broken. It should also specify a line length > > of something like 256 so it doesnt go mashing lines. > > Well, currently the Lindent script specifies a line length of 80 characters. > Should this be changed? > > indent -kr -i8 -ts8 -sob -l80 -ss -bs -psl "$@" > ^^^^ > > The CodingStyle document doesn't seem to specifically mention line length, > but does imply in a couple of places that code should fit nicely on a > 80-column, 24/25-line terminal.
I'd say that keeping the lines at 80 max is a real requirement, but Lindent is a bad way to implement it, as it just isn't intelligent enough to find good breaks in overly long lines.
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