On 7/26/07, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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;
>
> Try to imagine a bit harder then. I'm in that position, for example,
> even on my desktop. It's much more effective to be able to view more
> than one window at a time (e.g. the bug report or details in the web
> window and the terminal next to it), so 80 columns is the right sort of
> width for that. It's the same reason people have web browser windows at
> less than 1024 columns sometimes, despite big screens existing. Having
> to flick back and forth between partially obscured windows is slower.
> This workflow doesn't work on my laptop, since the screen isn't large
> enough, but that's a problem with smaller screens.

I'll accept that I'm an outlier, then; I'm also the only one at work
who can't stand working with multiple and/or large monitors, and the
only one who prefers quickly flipping between maximized windows for
most apps rather than having multiple apps side-by-side.  (Yeah, I
guess that cements me as a weirdo.)  ;-)

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