On 7/25/07, Duc Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a somewhat related note, is it just me or does no django core developer > follow the "no line longer than 79 characters" note. I like using emacs > and I have my frame width set at 80 and it bothers me to no end to have > to scroll to see every line. Turning on line wrapping makes things even > harder to read!
I'm starting to seriously wonder if the 80-character line width has outlived its usefulness. There are various naturally occurring bits of code that just don't fit onto a single 80-character line, and the options for chopping it up are all sub-optimal; increasing the minimum width would decrease the number of occasions on which one might need to deal with this frustration. Docstrings and comments also find themselves cramped for space after a few indentation levels. I find it hard to imagine a programmer these days who is so starved for screen real estate that they couldn't handle a width of, say, 120 characters; I code in Aquamacs Emacs on a 13" Macbook and a 15" Macbook Pro, and I come nowhere *near* using all of my screen real estate in the horizontal dimension -- and no, I'm not using tiny fonts. The same thing applies to any terminal inside of a GUI. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
