And give a reason. The previous `limit' of 75-80 was ambiguous.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <[email protected]> CC: Anthony PERARD <[email protected]> --- tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE b/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE index 32170efb9e..3d572f6925 100644 --- a/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE +++ b/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE @@ -220,12 +220,14 @@ Do not leave whitespace dangling off the ends of lines. 2. Line width -Lines are limited to 75-80 characters. +Lines are limited to 75 characters. Rationale: - Some people like to tile their 24" screens with a 6x4 matrix of 80x24 xterms and use vi in all of them. The best way to punish them is to let them keep doing it. + - In an 80 column terminal, some room needs to be left for > quoting + characters, +/- diff characters, and so on, in emails. - Code and especially patches is much more readable if limited to a sane line length. Eighty is traditional. - It is the libxenlight coding style. -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
