Re: [Evms-devel] Re: EVMS Submission for 2.5

Kevin Corry
2002-10-04T13:34:47Z

On Friday 04 October 2002 08:06, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 01:39, Kevin Corry wrote:
> > Yep, you guessed it. I'm no big fan of Lindent. In my opinion, it makes
> > some really bad choices about how to break long lines (among other
> > things), as you've kindly pointed out. But, I had to start somewhere and
> > wanted to get something out before I left for the day. Obviously the AIX
> > plugin will need some additional attention at some point.
>
> 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.

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Kevin Corry
corryk@us.ibm.com