From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Fill column
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:26:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82dd739f1001170626o343dfa75qc1fd64621f9645d7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19283.1288.750642.339010@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
2010/1/17 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>:
>>>>>> 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.
Almost all code does not adhere to it. 80 columns is a harmful legacy
that needs to be abandoned now that we are no longer limited by 1970s
terminals.
> 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.
Except that we're using fixed width fonts and reading non-hyphenated
source code, and we are reading it on a screen, not in print.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-17 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-17 12:39 [gentoo-pms] Fill column Ulrich Mueller
2010-01-17 14:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
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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