Line length in the code (was: DocBook: implement CALS tables)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 12:45:22AM +0200, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> > I did not test the output, but it otherwise looks fine. The one thing I
> > would suggest is that you split the long comment lines, especially. We try
> > to keep from having lines that are too, too long, as some people use pretty
> > basic editors for their work.
> >
> How long is "long"? I tend to keep my lines under 100 characters (which
> even Linus Torvalds recommends:
> https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/05/31/211211/linus-torvalds-argues-against-80-column-line-length-coding-style-as-linux-kernel-deprecates-it).

We don't have strict rule, but most of the code tends to get into 80 chars
and the reason is mostly historical.

Since Andre hides, is there actually someone who still wishes to keep this archaic limit? 

There are parts of our code which clearly suffer from this limitation
(my favourite are qt connect two-liners ;)

avel