# [RFC PATCH] editorconfig: limit code lines to 80 characters

2 messages from 2024-01-22 to 2024-01-22. Participants: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/60781

## Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, 2024-01-22 20:14

Subject: [RFC PATCH] editorconfig: limit code lines to 80 characters
Message-ID: <20240122201420.72802-1-carenas@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20240122201420.72802-1-carenas%40gmail.com

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Since 6f9beef335 (editorconfig: provide editor settings for Git developers,
2018-10-08) a multi editor/IDE configuration file has been provided to help
developers follow Documentation/CodingGuidelines.

The settings are also supposed to mirror what is found in .clang-format, but
the "ColumnLimit: 80" setting wasn't included, so correct that.
---
 .editorconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
index f9d819623d..c6d7815c80 100644
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ insert_final_newline = true
 [*.{c,h,sh,perl,pl,pm,txt}]
 indent_style = tab
 tab_width = 8
+max_line_length = 80
 
 [*.py]
 indent_style = space
-- 
2.39.3 (Apple Git-145)


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## Junio C Hamano, 2024-01-22 20:44

Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] editorconfig: limit code lines to 80 characters
Message-ID: <xmqqle8hrtcs.fsf@gitster.g>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqle8hrtcs.fsf%40gitster.g
In-Reply-To: <20240122201420.72802-1-carenas@gmail.com>

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Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

> Since 6f9beef335 (editorconfig: provide editor settings for Git developers,
> 2018-10-08) a multi editor/IDE configuration file has been provided to help
> developers follow Documentation/CodingGuidelines.
>
> The settings are also supposed to mirror what is found in .clang-format, but
> the "ColumnLimit: 80" setting wasn't included, so correct that.
> ---
>  .editorconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Sounds quite straight-forward to me.

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