Re: [docs] winedev: Update code columns limit (resend)

[Michael Stefaniuc]

André Hentschel wrote:
> Am 24.07.2011 00:02, schrieb Francois Gouget:
> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, André Hentschel wrote:
> > [...]
> > > -
> > >    Code is usually limited to 80 columns. This helps prevent
> > > -
> > >    mailers mangling patches by line wrap. Also it generally
> > > -
> > >    Code is usually limited to 100 columns. It generally
> >
> > I'd prefer to keep the 80 columns recommandation.
> >
> > With 80 columns one can nicely fit files side by side on a laptop with a 
> > typical 1024 horizontal resolution whereas with 100 colums one would end 
> > up with the hair comb effect thus making the code unreadable. Also 100 
> > seems close enough to 80 that I'm not sure it actually provides any of 
> > the benefits that longer lines are supposed to provide (if they are 
> > supposed to provide any).
>
> I see your point, but looking at the code it's already quite often around 100 and AJ also stated that 100 is more or less the actual limit.
> Otherwise i wouldn't have sent the patch.

Yepp, 100 is the preferred line length for Wine for over a year now.
Personally I would have gone for 120 but Alexandre said that 100 is
enough. So all my janitorial patches since then have cleaned up the line
length to 100 en passant.

bye
    michael