Re: [HACKERS] Updating line length guidelines

On 2017-08-20 09:29:39 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 08/20/2017 07:49 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We currently still have the guideline that code should fit into an 80
> > character window. But an increasing amount of the code, and code
> > submissions, don't adhere to that (e.g. copy.c, which triggered me to
> > write this email). And I mean outside of accepted "exceptions" like
> > error messages.  And there's less need for such a relatively tight limit
> > these days.  Perhaps we should up the guideline to 90 or 100 chars?
> 
> Considering the prominence of high resolution monitors and the fact that we
> don't really review patches (outside of commentary) in email much anymore,
> it seems that may even be a bit archaic. On my standard FHD screen using a
> standard size font I have a line length of 210 before I wrap.

People commonly display multiple buffers side-by-side...  But leaving
that aside, longer and longer lines actually become just hard to read
and hint that statements should be broken across lines / indentation
reduced by splitting inner blocks into their own functions.

- Andres