So the limit of 100 characters per line seems like it has some pros and cons. Pros are that folks who don't have word wrapped turned on get a better experience. Cons is developers have to spend time manually doing and fixing comment line breaks. It also seems to me that all modern code editors have word wrap. So I guess my question is, are there still folks that don't have word wrap turned on? Is this a Linux thing? Just curious. Thanks!
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In my experience, anything that uses meaningful indendation becames hard to read when using soft-wrap. Modern code editors have gotten much better at this, but it's still not great. It works fine for a long single line comment. But it really falls apart for a complex doc block.
Here's an example of PhpStorm soft-wrapping the documentation of the LocalFileRepo configuration to 80 characters: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F57770695
I much prefer the line onds on the righthand side to be cut off when casually browsing.
If we were to rely on soft wrapping entirely, I suppose a big doc block would "physically" be a single line? That would also make diffs much harder to read, since they are line base.
FYI: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F57770695 is not accessible.