> But you also have to decide at what point to hard wrap each line based on a max line length

I think that you should not be doing this, for the same reason that you should use tabs. It allows the user to select whichever hard wrap point (if any -- I generally choose to not have one) they prefer.

But all of this sort of thing is pointless debate these days, when it's pretty fast and easy to preprocess the files to match your preferences prior to editing.

>It allows the user to select whichever hard wrap point (if any -- I generally choose to not have one) they prefer.

And then have merge conflicts between people who set different hard wrap points? Did you mean to say soft wrap point?

But you don't hard wrap at exactly the max line length anyway. You wrap at the somewhere sensible near the max line length. This is much more tolerable to size changes in indentation.