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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:09:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <402CA267.4090202@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402131749.19758.mhf@linuxmail.org>



Michael Frank wrote:

>On Friday 13 February 2004 17:10, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>
>>Yes, 80 cols sucks and the world would be a better place had CodingStyle
>>mandated 96 columns five years ago.  But it didn't happen.
>>
>>
>
>As to "five years ago", what about review the coding style situation before 
>starting 2.7:
>
>In view of better hardware, increasing linelength a little to 96 could be 
>considered without increasing the number of indentation levels.
>
>

I hope not, I usually use 80 columns. Email's using 80 columns.
And lines start becoming difficult for the eyes to follow as they
get longer. Maybe this isn't so much a problem with C code due to
indentation and the sparseness of the lines.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-13 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-12 22:15 PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle Michael Frank
2004-02-12 23:20 ` Tim Bird
2004-02-12 23:46   ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-13  0:19   ` Tim Hockin
2004-02-12 23:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-13  1:50   ` Alex Goddard
2004-02-13  1:52   ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-02-13  0:13 ` viro
2004-02-13  1:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-02-13  8:49 ` PATCH, RFC: Version 2 of 2.6 Codingstyle Michael Frank
2004-02-13  9:44   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-13 11:24     ` Nikita Danilov
2004-02-16 17:56     ` Ludootje
2004-02-13 22:38   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-13  8:58 ` PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle Giuliano Pochini
2004-02-13  9:10   ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-13  9:49     ` Michael Frank
2004-02-13 10:09       ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-02-13 10:50         ` Michael Frank
2004-02-18  7:39           ` Miles Bader
2004-02-13 12:44     ` viro
2004-02-13  9:19   ` David Weinehall
2004-02-13 11:42   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-13 12:13     ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-13 12:42     ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-02-13 13:55     ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-02-13 14:35       ` Angelo Dell'Aera
2004-02-13 15:42         ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-02-13 15:48         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-13 16:38           ` Angelo Dell'Aera
2004-02-13 17:03             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-13 16:18       ` viro
2004-02-14  0:38 ` Kevin O'Connor
2004-02-14  0:56   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-14  1:44 ` PATCH, RFC: Version 3 of 2.6 Codingstyle Michael Frank
2004-02-14  3:44   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-02-15 10:09     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-14 20:44 ` PATCH, RFC: Version 4 " Michael Frank
2004-02-14 21:27   ` viro
2004-02-16  3:47 ` PATCH, RFC: Version 5 " Michael Frank
     [not found] <fa.fbh88ra.kn8094@ifi.uio.no>
2004-02-13  6:41 ` PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle Junio C Hamano
2004-02-13  7:18   ` vda
2004-02-13 12:37     ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-02-13 13:57       ` vda

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