Line length in the code

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 16/07/2020 à 15:35, Pavel Sanda a écrit :
> 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 ;)

Well, when I  code with a terminal window side-by-side with my editor on 
my smallish xps 13, I appreciate short lines :) On a two monitor setup, 
I can live with them :)

JMarc