Max Line Length and E501

Is the “Max Line Length” config parameter supposed to be passed as --max-line-length to flake8? If so, it isn’t working for me with atom 1.0.0, linter 1.1.0 and linter-flake8 1.4.2. Here are the relevant lines from my config.cson:

  linter: {}
  "linter-flake8":
    maxLineLength: 95

but I am getting E501 errors based on a max-line-length of 79, as shown in this screen capture:

[badray]

Sorry I forgot that config.cson is atom default package settings file 😃. But you should use a graphical plugin settings editor which is in Atom->Preferences->Packages->linter-flake8->Settings.

tox.ini file is read by flake8 directly, not by the linter, so in your case it should look like this:

[flake8]
max-line-length = 95

See http://flake8.readthedocs.org/en/latest/config.html for reference.

Hope it helps!

[badray]

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