Re: ChangeLog conventions: fill-column

[Michaël Cadilhac]

address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:

> address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>>
>>> Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> recently some people (Stefan, Kim) reformatted my ChangeLog entries.
>>>> My `fill-column' in ChangeLog buffers if 74 which is the default from
>>>> `change-log-mode'[1].  Am I missing some coding convention for Emacs
>>>> ChangeLog files?
>>>
>>> I don't recall when this started, but we now allow max 79 characters
>>> per line in Emacs ChangeLog files (I see a few lines of 80 chars,
>>> but I'm not sure that is really ok).
>>>
>>> IMO, we should have a file-local setting to reflect this.
>>
>>   BTW, what is the rational of setting `fill-column' to 74 ?
>>
>>   AFAIK, such a `fill-column' was used  only in mails or news to allow
>>   easy replies under 80 columns.
>>
>>   I don't see the point here, any clue ?
>
>     Nobody ? If there's no rational, why not put this limit to 79 in
>     add-log.el ?
>
>     Making this  customizable is probably  not a good solution,  as we
>     should  then,  for  the  sake  of  consistency,  set  left-margin,
>     tab-width, ... to be customizable too.
>
>     Patch attached, if needed.
>
> Index: lisp/ChangeLog

> Index: lisp/add-log.el

> Index: lisp/textmodes/ispell.el

  Of course, the last one has nothing to do with the topic. Sorry.

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