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

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 12:07 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 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...

I am not a vim user, but maybe remove this line
altogether and add something like

	setlocal colorcolumn=80,100

and let people make their own wrapping decisions.