80 or 79 characters limit?

[Joel Sherrill]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020, 9:26 AM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I review currently the Coding Conventions. Should the 80 characters
> limit be really a 79 characters limit with the \n as the invisible 80th
> character?
>

Yes.

As old as this makes me feel, I remember printers which did an automatic
linefeed and then the newline one if you hit column 80. So it really is 79
unfortunately.

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