Convention for line-width?

[orcmid]

I notice that there is no constraint on line width and even in markdown, lines can be very wide, although GitHub Markdown treats simple line breaks as just white space.

I like to have my code and other text formats confined to a line width that I can print and also view easily in any editor. I even set VS Code to break on a right margin and I clean them up usually. The only exception I can think of is URLs and Markdown links. I am known to put a ruler line at the top of a text file just for this purpose.

Put differently, if I continued to do that (my width magic number is 72) would it still be compatible with the raylib convention? I.e., in a pull request?

[raysan5]

@orcmid That's a good question. At the beginning of raylib I tried to limit line-width to 80 characters but now I prefer to avoid any limit, sometimes I use descriptions or comments longer than 80 characters.

[orcmid]

I realized that I had dropped the habit of putting rulers in files, although I do have the auto-linewrap point set in VS Code.

I have gone back and put rulers in files of mine in orcmid/nfoTools and orcmid/rayLab. It is something I must mention in my own CONVENTIONS when I get around to that.