Re: [PATCH] vim: linux-kernel: Increase columns highlighting to 100+

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 09:35:42AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 11:33 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > Increase columns highlighting to 100+ once the 80-column warning has
> > been deprecated in the Linux kernel[1].
> > 
> > [1] commit bdc48fa11e46 ("checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column warning")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  plugin/linuxsty.vim | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/plugin/linuxsty.vim b/plugin/linuxsty.vim
> > index 6f7e331..c42ce72 100644
> > --- a/plugin/linuxsty.vim
> > +++ b/plugin/linuxsty.vim
> > @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ function s:LinuxFormatting()
> >      setlocal tabstop=8
> >      setlocal shiftwidth=8
> >      setlocal softtabstop=8
> > -    setlocal textwidth=80
> > +    setlocal textwidth=100
> 
> This is not a good change.
> 80 columns is still _preferred_.
> 

Now that you mention that, I have mixed feelings about this.
Let's see if we can get more opinions...

--
Gustavo

> 
> >      setlocal noexpandtab
> >  
> >      setlocal cindent
> > @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ function s:LinuxHighlighting()
> >      highlight default link LinuxError ErrorMsg
> >  
> >      syn match LinuxError / \+\ze\t/     " spaces before tab
> > -    syn match LinuxError /\%>80v[^()\{\}\[\]<>]\+/ " virtual column 81 and more
> > +    syn match LinuxError /\%>100v[^()\{\}\[\]<>]\+/ " virtual column 101 and more
> >  
> >      " Highlight trailing whitespace, unless we're in insert mode and the
> >      " cursor's placed right after the whitespace. This prevents us from having
>