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[Richard Harding <rick.harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, curtis Hovey wrote:

> I removed the 78-character max line length exception from pocket-lint.
> Line lengths are checked against 80-character lengths which is the most
> common rule for projects I hack on. We can choose to change to the
> standard, or I can land a change to Lp's wrapper to call pocket-lint
> with the preferred line length:
>     pocketlint --max-length=78
> 
> What say you? Do you want to keep the current Lp exception for
> 78-character max line length?

My experience has always been 79, so 78 had me adjusting my config, but
close enough. 80 works just as well for me, as long as we don't go all 120
or whatever people with wide displays and fullscreen editors like these
days. :)

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