4 Feb
2014
4 Feb
'14
11:03 p.m.
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 12:50 +0000, Hannes Petermaier wrote:
a line ist limited to 80 characters (maybe thus comes from very old days where displays couldn't show more than this and scrolling was very expensive). is this state of the art ?
Even on a fairly nice, modern screen, I find 80 columns to be about right for two side-by-side windows with a comfortable font size.
Plus, horizontal scrolling is still a pain[1], and excessively long lines can be harder to read even if they fit on the screen (this is why newspapers and other documents often format text in columns).
-Scott
[1] I'm looking at you, new boards.cfg format!