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 1NWW5R-0000Z1-NB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:26:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74229E0762; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34328E0762 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so2555812ewy.26 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:26:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=KRBWfCD9RMT2BEuxMSSeqDscXFogPEIMRyELG66Zufk=; b=sKgokefmyr47TegkxS52hOXjpLDpaxtMU5I5A1GRmDlbAB3Nyx+a6MM6zwrik7IBm7 gWiq+jX5haDdJQ1hDItJRYi13LMmmGs9b8JtAO4AiKIeIcfkHoDFkFoSsc0Vqe0hZ8mG tDbE/VUI8URhOMGL0loVl6zpFJmUhfOPXSLkI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Iyc59jCBob/TgDE5mG11V/cbvhQZ2Kdp0FmiqbvU/TMSt9VZnkKpepRMs7Rk4lQOIU N9BXwtDuPTBPcfwMhxwT5l0vVXA2Z+weaxffmWEtnwEzuK60XMjXfvo5SUk+YXrlLCAE fo9akpmE5cdVmq6780miOnqPuVUYA/kT/ykEs= 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 Received: by 10.216.90.203 with SMTP id e53mr1649950wef.28.1263738394295; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:26:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <19283.1288.750642.339010@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <19283.1288.750642.339010@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:26:34 +0000 Message-ID: <82dd739f1001170626o343dfa75qc1fd64621f9645d7@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Fill column From: Ciaran McCreesh To: Ulrich Mueller Cc: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 3efd0c3e-48b6-4038-b87f-55c810ad4915 X-Archives-Hash: 91c5f3b4d758bca3ef23ca6de28226ee 2010/1/17 Ulrich Mueller : >>>>>> 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