On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Why not just skip the specifics except to say < 80 characters for all > >> lines? Don't mention 72, 79 or any other number than 80: > > Amaury> I often run "svn diff" in a console limited to 80 characters. > Amaury> Because of the leading "+", lines longer than 78 wrap, and the > Amaury> output is more difficult to read. > > There will always be certain cases which present probems. I use "svn > annotate" from time-to-time which adds an even wider margin to the left. > In those situations I either grin and bear it or stretch my window enough to > view it without wrapping.
Yes, but svn/cvs diff is a particularly common use case. I agree with Amaury. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." --Butler Lampson _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
