On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Sander Temme wrote:
On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:35 AM, André Malo wrote:
Here it's 80 chars (actually I'm use 78 personally) both about putting
multiple editors side by side and keeping diffs readable by email clients.
I'm in much the same mode: multiple 80 char wide windows
side-by-side. I would favor keeping the 80 char limit unless the
message (code or otherwise) benefits from expression in a wider
format. For that reason, not elated about automated post-commit
enforcement.
+1
Fitting six 80x40 terminals on a single screen is quite handy when
working at multiple files at the same time, that gets cumbersome if
each file gets ad hoc widths especially when you mix headers/files of
different origins (say libs used by $project). Sure, the
terminal/viewer/editor wraps but the readability is crap.
I've seen code written by people with random-sized terminals (usually
the size they could comfortably use on their laptop of the time), and
even themselves tend to resort to running indent over the lot a few
years later when they need to print/overview/whatever...
So, 80 cols but with the exception mentioned by Sander above has my
vote.
/Nikke
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