On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:17:04 -0700 Michael Jennings <m...@kainx.org> said:
> On Friday, 30 July 2010, at 09:11:11 (+0900), > Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > yes.. and if i maximize my terms i get 383x101... if i made my fonts smaller > > and got some 30" screens i'd get more. moot point. > > Not a moot point at all. The point is that, in this day and age, most > users are no longer constrained by the 80 column limit, and for the > few who are, there is an easy way for them to toggle to 132 columns. > There's even a binding for it in screen (C-a W). So that particular > value has significance in being easy to obtain, common to almost all > terminals, and significantly more readable. It's not just some random > width that only applies to a particular user. > > The number 80 was chosen for a reason. The number 132 could be chosen > for almost as good a reason. This is not the case for *any* other > width, including 85. my point still stands. you can say it's sane - but then if you look at most commercial visual studio users they sit there with editors fullscreen and just fill the entire screen with lines of code. you can keep expanding your width until the cows come home. 80 wide allows multiple virtical columns of code to be on screen at once (ef .c file on left, header next to it in the middle, another .c file next to that and soon). as such humans are bad at reading long lines of text. there is a reason newspapers and magazines use thin columns. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
