[Xen-changelog] [xen master] libxl: CODING_STYLE: Clarify line length limit to 75

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commit a23744e9ee82938f22c9f8303d1b3a1c033f3b32
Author: Ian Jackson <***@eu.citrix.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Oct 15 14:51:01 2018 +0100
Commit: Ian Jackson <***@eu.citrix.com>
CommitDate: Tue Oct 30 17:03:23 2018 +0000

libxl: CODING_STYLE: Clarify line length limit to 75

And give a reason.

The previous `limit' of 75-80 was ambiguous.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <***@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <***@citrix.com>
CC: Anthony PERARD <***@citrix.com>
---
tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE b/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE
index 32170efb9e..3d572f6925 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE
@@ -220,12 +220,14 @@ Do not leave whitespace dangling off the ends of lines.

2. Line width

-Lines are limited to 75-80 characters.
+Lines are limited to 75 characters.

Rationale:
- Some people like to tile their 24" screens with a 6x4 matrix of 80x24
xterms and use vi in all of them. The best way to punish them is to
let them keep doing it.
+ - In an 80 column terminal, some room needs to be left for > quoting
+ characters, +/- diff characters, and so on, in emails.
- Code and especially patches is much more readable if limited to a sane
line length. Eighty is traditional.
- It is the libxenlight coding style.
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