Re: [PATCH] Fit line in 80 columns

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:07 AM Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:02 AM Alejandro Colomar
> <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > That line is used to generate the bpf-helpers(7) manual page.  It
> > is a no-fill line, since it represents a command, which means that
> > the formatter can't break the line, and instead just runs across
> > the right margin (in most set-ups this means that the pager will
> > break the line).
> >
> > Using <fmt> makes it end exactly at the 80-col right margin, both
> > in the header file, and also in the manual page, and also seems to
> > be a sensible name.
>
> Nack.
>
> We don't follow 80 char limit and are not going to because of man pages.

And it's questionable in general to enforce line length for verbatim
(code) block. It's verbatim for a good reason, it can't be wrapped.



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