On 08/17/10 12:59, AK wrote: > On 08/16/2010 10:42 PM, James Mills wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:35 PM, AK<andrei....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> As monitors are getting bigger, is there a general change in opinion on >>> the 79 chars limit in source files? I've experimented with 98 characters >>> per line and I find it quite a bit more comfortable to work with that >>> length, even though sometimes I have to edit files in 80 width >>> terminals, it's still easier to adapt to some inconvenience when that >>> happens than the other way around, since about 95% of time or more, I do >>> use wider editor window or terminal. >>> >>> Is going over 79 still a terrible thing to do? -andrei >> >> My personal opinion (despite monitors being wider) is >> the horizontal scrolling isn't worth it. Stick to a 80-char width. > > But.. why horizontal scrolling, isn't autowrap much better than that?
Do you seriously use autowrapper when writing code? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
