On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > Umm, this has formatting issues with lines extending beyond column #80. > > 80 columns are no longer a line length limit -- 100 is, IIRC. I don't think anything has changed here: "The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns. "Statements longer than 80 columns should be broken into sensible chunks, unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does not hide information." -- from Documentation/process/coding-style.rst, "Breaking long lines and strings". And if it were to change anytime, then I think it would make sense for such a new rule to apply to new files only. I would be strongly against it anyway, as the human's capability to parse lines has not changed when it comes to the quantity of characters easily processed at once: the angle spanned by eyes is hardwired. For this reason the GNU toolchain projects keep the limit even lower, at 74 columns (after extensive discussions). Maciej
