At both school and at home I can fit 3 80-character buffers side by side, at a comfortable font size. Going up (even to 85 cols) would mean losing a buffer. (Or straining my eyes.) Of course I can deal with wrapped lines. But I still vote for 80 characters as a target, while allowing people wiggle room to miss this target.
The number 80 is with us for historical reasons, but I know I'm not the only one who still routinely uses 80-column buffers. Richard On Nov 9, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: > In my view 80 chars is too short. It was justified in the days of 80-column > CRTs, but that just isn't a restriction any more. I routinely edit in a > much wider window. > > Clearly there's a judgement call here. But I'd prefer 120 cols say. > > Simon > > -----Original Message----- > From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Richard > Eisenberg > Sent: 09 November 2015 21:03 > To: ghc-devs Devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> > Subject: too many lines too long > > Hi devs, > > We seem to be uncommitted to the ideal of 80-character lines. Almost every > patch on Phab I look through has a bunch of "line too long" lint errors. No > one seems to do much about these. And Phab's very very loud indication of a > lint error makes reviewing the code harder. > > I like the ideal of 80-character lines. I aim for this ideal in my patches, > falling short sometimes, of course. But I think the current setting of > requiring everyone to "explain" away their overlong lines during `arc diff` > and then trying hard to ignore the lint errors during code review is wrong. > And it makes us all inured to more serious lint errors. > > How about this: after `arc diff` is run, it will count the number of overlong > lines before and after the patch. If there are more after, have the last > thing `arc diff` outputs be a stern telling-off of the dev, along the lines of > >> Before your patch, 15 of the edited lines were over 80 characters. >> Now, a whopping 28 of them are. Can't you do better? Please? > > Would this be ignored more or followed more? Who knows. But it would sure be > less annoying. :) > > What do others think? > > Thanks, > Richard > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fmail.haskell.org%2fcgi-bin%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2fghc-devs&data=01%7c01%7csimonpj%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7cebcdeaa0675a490898dc08d2e94927cc%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=6IXQEBFIJnDRWCSKmNxdVsWQm2bqPVPn133kblshukU%3d > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs