From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:51:01 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: libxl: CODING_STYLE: Clarify line length limit to 75
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libxl: CODING_STYLE: Clarify line length limit to 75

And give a reason.

The previous `limit' of 75-80 was ambiguous.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
CC: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
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diff --git a/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE b/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE
index 32170efb9e..3d572f6925 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE
@@ -220,12 +220,14 @@ Do not leave whitespace dangling off the ends of lines.
 
 2. Line width
 
-Lines are limited to 75-80 characters.
+Lines are limited to 75 characters.
 
 Rationale:
  - Some people like to tile their 24" screens with a 6x4 matrix of 80x24
    xterms and use vi in all of them.  The best way to punish them is to
    let them keep doing it.
+ - In an 80 column terminal, some room needs to be left for > quoting
+   characters, +/- diff characters, and so on, in emails.
  - Code and especially patches is much more readable if limited to a sane
    line length.  Eighty is traditional.
  - It is the libxenlight coding style.