On 25/06/27 01:51AM, Karthik Nayak wrote:

Justin Tobler [off-list ref] writes:

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On 25/06/25 06:43PM, Karthik Nayak wrote:

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As per 'Documentation/CodingGuidelines', we try to keep to at most 80
characters per line. However, there are often certain cases where we
extend this for the sake of readability.

Add a maximum limit of 120 characters to the '.editorconfig'. This means
that if an individual line exceeds 120 characters, the editor will wrap
that line. This provides a lot wiggle room over the recommended 80
character limit.

Hello Justin,

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I frequently use the format operator in vim to reformat entire blocks of
text and it is commonly configured to use `max_line_length` from an
`.editorconfig` file to know when to wrap lines. Changing the value to
120 would cause my editor to prefer 120 character lines when
reformatting, which I would personally not like.

It would only wrap lines longer than 120 columns. Currently editorconfig
doesn't wrap any line length. So we're essentially saying, any line
above 120 is not something we want to accept and hence wrap. This
doesn't mean that shorter lines will be combined together. Wouldn't this
be better than the current situation?

When `max_line_length` is set in a ".editorconfig" file, in my vim
editor it overrides the `textwidth` configuration which was already set
to 80 by default. So changing to 120 would change line wrapping behavior
for me at least. I could disable using the ".editorconfig", but I would
prefer to avoid doing that :)

-Justin