[BzrTools/MERGE] cdiff --check-style Highlight trailing white space

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Mon Apr 21 03:55:34 BST 2008


raindog at macrohmasheen.com wrote:
> This is a little off topic, but, what's the deal with 80 character line limits? My *cell phone* csn displsy more text than that.

It's recommended in the Python Style Guide:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Long lines are hard to read, and the ability to view two versions
side-by-side can be useful.  80 columns is still the default size of
terminals and some text editors, so it is a good choice.

Aaron



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