On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:28:14PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Am Montag, 21. August 2006 17:45 schrieb Chip Salzenberg: > > Well, that's fair. ?Many of us are old enough to have used such limited > > hardware, but it's all surely been relegated to the trashheap by now. ?So: > > Would anyone be inconvenienced by exceeding 80 columns regularly; and, how? > > 80, or 100, or 132 are all some arbitrary limits. But the latter is already > inconvenient on a 12" powermac with reasonable font size [1]. Due to the > rather verbose VTABLE macros, 80 looks a bit too limited (given the > impressive amount of needed code changes we got recently (ambs++ BTW)). > > My preference: soft limit 80 - keep lines shorter, if it's easy > hard limit ~100 - you SHALL not exceed it I agree. At my $day_job we use 110 as the hard limit and this works fine for most desktop users but is rather annoying for those of us that bought 16:9 format laptops just so we can squeeze 2 x 80 column terminals side by side (at an almost legible font size).
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