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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: max line length
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:34:04 -0700
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> On 2022-04-19 0:58, Thomas wrote:
>> hi :-)
>> how do you set your max line length?
>> using indentations a lot, i find that 80 is short.
>
>
> I limit lines to 80 characters, because I very often want to use a
> side-by-side diff of file versions, 

I prefer top/bottom diff, partly for this reason.

But my monitor can easily display 240 characters across. And I have good
glasses.

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