From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
Cc: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Fill column
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:39:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19283.1288.750642.339010@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
>>>>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Oh heck no. There's no excuse for using 70 or 80 columns for source
> code any more. My old laptop can fit 100 across the screen
> comfortably, which is much cleaner to work with.
Some people use several windows side by side, and the natural width of
these windows is 80 columns because almost all code adheres to it.
And we are talking about LaTeX source code that is mostly human
readable language. Readability suffers if lines have more than 60 or
70 characters.
Ulrich
next reply other threads:[~2010-01-17 12:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-17 12:39 Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2010-01-17 14:26 ` [gentoo-pms] Fill column Ciaran McCreesh
2010-01-19 12:06 ` Brian Harring
2010-01-19 12:26 ` David Leverton
2010-02-01 10:18 ` [gentoo-pms] EXPORT_FUNCTIONS Ulrich Mueller
2010-02-05 20:21 ` [gentoo-pms] EXPORT_FUNCTIONS Ulrich Mueller
2010-02-05 21:22 ` David Leverton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-13 18:40 [gentoo-pms] Clarify line continuation in make.defaults Jacob Godserv
2010-01-13 21:01 ` Christian Faulhammer
2010-01-17 4:07 ` [gentoo-pms] Fill column (was: Re: Clarify line continuation in make.defaults) Ulrich Mueller
2010-01-17 8:47 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-01-17 9:30 ` [gentoo-pms] Fill column Christian Faulhammer
2010-01-17 9:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-01-17 10:01 ` Christian Faulhammer
[not found] ` <82dd739f1001170311o14aafd13n8a140fc4c9ab487@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20100117142956.125b2e18@gentoo.org>
2010-01-17 14:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh
[not found] ` <19283.12619.238117.318780@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
2010-01-17 17:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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