On 2015/01/23 21:40, Simon Nicolussi wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2015/01/23 16:50, Jim Smith wrote: > > > doesn't look like the 80 column rule is mentioned in > > > style(9). this diff puts the sentence around the same place > > > as osx's style(9) as it was the only example i could find > > > and it seems like a reasonable place. > > > > oh, is that really not mentioned? I think that makes sense. any objections? > > Maybe also clarify whether the trailing newline counts as a character? > I'd say it does because otherwise Emacs and vi in line mode still wrap > to the next screen line.
It's fairly common practice in the source tree to have text right up to column 80.
