From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,429176cb92b1b825 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!m20g2000prc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:45:16 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1295311516 11718 127.0.0.1 (18 Jan 2011 00:45:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m20g2000prc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; .NET4.0C),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:17468 Date: 2011-01-17T16:45:16-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 17, 5:47=A0am, Bill Findlay wrote: > >> A line should never be longer than 79 characters, > >> not counting the line separator. > > > =A0 =A0 I fully agree with this is some sense (just that I use 78 > > =A0 =A0 characters instead of 79). > > Why 78/79 and not 80, as I have always used? I tend to make all my windows 80 characters wide. I use EMACS, which reserves the 80th character for a wrapping indicator, so that if you used it on a source with an 80-character line, EMACS would display only 79 of those on the first line, put a mark in the 80th character indicating that the line is wrapped, and then display the 80th character on the next line. -- Adam