Re: 80 column line limit?

[Willy Tarreau]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:03:09PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> And your nesting is too deep, it should be fixed.
> >
> >It's not about nesting, if that's the reason, the number of tabs
> >should get a maximum specified instead.
> >
> Or we could have the tab width lowered, but I doubt
> Linus would accept that :)

In fact, one tab could be lowered, it's the first one. Nearly all code
has at least this tab which is not very useful and would not affect
readability if reduced to 2 or 4. But it will be difficult to maintain
a variable tab width, not to mention the alignment problem on the
second tab.

BTW, if 80 is not enough, simply consider that one tab is exactly one
character ( '\011' ) and you will be able to put more, but I doubt
your code will be accepted ;-)

Willy

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