On Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:20:13 AM UTC-5, Roland Eggner wrote: > • The age of punch cards is over. Nowadays the common 80 columns limit is > just > > a habit without any technical reasons.
I agree with using long self-documenting variable names. But 80 characters DOES have technical meaning still. First, most terminal windows default to 80 columns wide. So using Vim in a terminal is much easier if text is short. Second, with a rotated monitor, or with tiled/split windows, or just keeping a smaller resized window over the top of some reference material, 80 characters is actually a little larger than what can fit without horizontal scrolling. And adding whitespace to keep lines at 80 characters (or pretty close) is not hard. I know I would be very annoyed editing source code at 160 characters. With my rotated monitor, TagBar window, and DejaVu font, that would wrap at least once per line, or force me to scroll back and forth just to see the code. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
