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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable 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,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!83.128.0.12.MISMATCH!news-out2.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!xindi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:07:32 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: IbwjOtp6CRWK4RAOHu6GbA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.00 (Win32) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16502 Date: 2011-01-18T07:07:32+01:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:45:16 +0100, Adam Beneschan a = =C3=A9crit: > On Jan 17, 5:47 am, Bill Findlay wrote: > >> >> A line should never be longer than 79 characters, >> >> not counting the line separator. >> >> > I fully agree with this is some sense (just that I use 78 >> > 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. Alternatively, on 80 characters wide terminal, an editor may draw a fram= e, = consuming one character on the left edge and one character the right edg= e = (think about the EDIT.COM program coming with MS-DOS). -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]