Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 21:46:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: wes@intele.net (Barnacle Wes) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <199605301946.VAA22788@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605300432.WAA28640@intele.net> from Barnacle Wes at "May 29, 96 10:32:35 pm"
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As Barnacle Wes wrote: > > That doesn't make it better readable. Any text with more than ~ 60 > > ... 70 characters per line is unreadable. > > > > Not to speak about the eye-damaging small fonts required (not all of > > us can afford 29-inch monitors). > > Nah, just get a 17" monitor and use 12-point Lucidasans Typewriter. > With a 1024x768 X screen, it looks great at 110x40 or so... just > like what I see in front of me now! ;^) It's about the same i'm using (a full-blown emacs gets 117x49). Anyway, i rather prefer to use the added space for additional windows/ applications, instead of for more characters per line. One often has to toggle back and forth between sources, header files, and man pages while writing some program, so a The typografical rules say ~ 60 chars per line, everything else has to be made two-column (a bit impractical for programs :). Of course, if you've already got 50 columns indentation, then it would require a 110 chars wide display. So it's rather a question of not nesting too deep. I know that stylistic issues are always religious -- but we are on -chat here. ;) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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