Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Oct 2022 05:07:47 +0530 | From | Bhaskar Chowdhury <> | Subject | Re: Request for assistance |
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On 10:39 Thu 20 Oct 2022, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >Tanju, some additional hints. First of all, please don't send cleanup >patches to address checkpatch --file complaints about overly long >lines. It's generally not worth the code churn. > >Secondly for code that *you* are writing, think about why you have >lines which are exceeding the line width in the first place. Is it >because code is being nested too deeply, and perhaps some judicious >function refactoring with good function names might make the code >clearer? Would adding some temporary variables that are judiciously >named make the code look clearer? > >The rules about "thou shalt never have lines which exceed 78 >characters" are rules of thumb. The high level goal is to make the >code more readable and easier to understand, since good code is >maintainable code. And sometimes it's not just about where to split >lines of code but whether there is a better way to structure the code >so that long lines aren't needed in the first place. > >Cheers, > > - Ted Righto!! I failed to miss it my replies. That an editor can be trained or customized to that way. Especially , vim and emacs. -- Thanks, Bhaskar
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