Re: master 72b1379f079: Increase `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column` to 72

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 15:43:46 +0800
>> 
>> What problems came of the old value of 64, so urgent that it was
>> necessary to install this change (which, let us not forget, affects
>> _all_ Emacs users) on such short notice?
>
> And what problems do you envision from the new value?

Doc strings in old code will be a different width from those in new
code, and more difficult to read on mobile phone displays, which were
bizarrely stated as part of the change's rationale in the commit
messages.

> I'm surprised that you are opposed to something that has close to no
> effect on the doc strings.  It sounds like another bikeshedding to me.

Its effect will become visible over time, we simply don't know what they
will be, and could all have benefited from some advance notice.