From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWUPu-0004EJ-4l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:39:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D322DE07C0; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C272E07C0 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o0HCda5Q018018; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:39:36 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o0HCda75030662; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:39:36 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0HCdabS030659; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:39:36 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19283.1288.750642.339010@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:39:36 +0100 To: Ciaran McCreesh Cc: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org From: Ulrich Mueller Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Fill column X-Archives-Salt: 6fdcca5b-3a24-4ce7-9b2a-1cc808c61be9 X-Archives-Hash: 4a5b5e0e755b20a35e6c0c702f340664 >>>>> 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