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From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
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corryk@us.ibm.com (Kevin Corry)  wrote on 04.10.02 in <02100408071900.02266@boiler>:

> On Friday 04 October 2002 08:06, Alan Cox wrote:

> > IMHO the Lindent script is broken. It should also specify a line length
> > of something like 256 so it doesnt go mashing lines.
>
> Well, currently the Lindent script specifies a line length of 80 characters.
> Should this be changed?
>
> indent -kr -i8 -ts8 -sob -l80 -ss -bs -psl "$@"
>                          ^^^^
>
> The CodingStyle document doesn't seem to specifically mention line length,
> but does imply in a couple of places that code should fit nicely on a
> 80-column, 24/25-line terminal.

I'd say that keeping the lines at 80 max is a real requirement, but  
Lindent is a bad way to implement it, as it just isn't intelligent enough  
to find good breaks in overly long lines.

MfG Kai
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