Re: [PATCH 1/4] editorconfig: set maximum line length to 120 characters

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 26, 2025, 14:25 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAOLa=ZRu-fBsNpoSzb8z2xUfM7WUUcdR1XRd8zr1U+P61QRccA@mail.gmail.com>

Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:

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> So my intent was to instead was to allow the user to be in charge of
> line-wrapping, but for no reason should that go beyond 120 columns.
>
> I'm happy to change that to 80 columns, this does mean that supported
> editors will start wrapping at 80 columns. Users will have to override
> as necessary.

OK.  So stepping back a bit

 1. We advise people to avoid exceeding 80 columns

 2. A line can be easier to read without wrapping strictly at 80
    columns but left as a single line, slightly going above the
    limit..

 3. Even with the second observation above, a line that is way
    longer than 80 columns is not acceptably long.

Now, what is the line between the #2 and #3? If we set these "hard limit" to that number, as long as the tool does not pack multiple shorter lines into one line using that number as a limit, we'd be at a happy place, I would imagine?

Thanks.