August <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The problem is not "standard terminals" but legibility. > > I'm sure that legibility was one of the motivations for the decision to > use 80 character columns for terminals. The standard width sure is an > issue here as wrongly formatted paragraphs affect legibility even more > than overly long lines. The default width for editors and terminal > windows is usually 80 characters.
Yeah, and I strongly dislike the occasional suggestion you see to "just make your windows wider, c'mon it's a modern system!" (hi Tom!). My display is perfectly _capable_ of holding very wide windows, but *I don't want such windows*!!! My reasoning is this: _most_ code or line-wrapped text doesn't have long lines (for good legibility reasons), so if I make my windows very wide by default, I'm simply going to have a lot of empty space in them most of the time; by keeping my windows to a reasonable width, I can in fact fit two windows side-by-side on my display, allowing me to use the available space more productively. -Miles -- /\ /\ (^.^) (")") *This is the cute kitty virus, please copy this into your sig so it can spread. _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs