Re: max line length

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in message 
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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.

The diff program I use can scroll sideways if necessary, and so can every 
editor I've used since 1985, so this isn't generally an important concern. 
The Janus/Ada source used a "soft" limit of 80, mainly because that's what 
terminals and PCs displayed back then, but we never broke lines just for 
that reason. Typically, the indent is more than the overrun anyway (so that 
actual text never exceeded 80 characters). Of course, one has to break 
really long calls, like the call to create a window in Claw (which usually 
has a dozen or so parameters).

                                Randy.



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