On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@nibrahim.net.in>wrote:
> Balachandran Sivakumar <benignb...@gmail.com> writes: > > [...] > > > It is not a "strong" preference. It is something that a > > lot of us are used to, and so I assume people are fine with it and > > hence status quo :). > > It's quite a strong preference for me. I'm also very pedantic about the > way I format my emails. > > I'm not too particular about horizontal space. I think the current trend > which favours widescreen aspect ratios is deplorable and not very > helpful while coding. It's irritating when a line of text is so long on > a monitor that I have to deliberately look left to right. Conveniently changed the topic from mails to code eh? :) Anyway, I'm with you on that. Especially hard when I have to diff something side by side. Irritating? Yes. Deplorable? Not quite. > I much prefer > vertical screen space so that I don't have to repeatedly scroll and jump > around while trying to read some code. > I dont understand. What's your viewport width? Can that only support 80ish chars? Are you on mobile/tablet? I'm on gmail, and I can see .. chatbox, this email, lots of whitespace AND advertisements.. from left to right. > > > But, if people find this format difficult and prefer a > > full-width format, we can try out and ask for people's feedback. Just > > that it takes a few days to get used it and that should be fine. > > Please no. It's annoying and there's no real gain from allowing long > lines of text. > > What's annoying to me is that this breaks my flow of reading when I have to constantly move my eyes right to left, hoping I land on the next line. Its especially hard to find the correct line when you're in the middle of a big paragraph. I think what I'm trying to say is for code, 80 chars (for the most part) and for emails, lets use the full width (and let the editor/browser/client deal with wrapping) -jeff > [...] > > -- > Cordially, > Noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
