From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 30 14:02:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA24667 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 14:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA24610 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 14:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA15721; Thu, 30 May 1996 23:00:54 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA17238; Thu, 30 May 1996 23:00:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA22788; Thu, 30 May 1996 21:46:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605301946.VAA22788@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Indentation styles To: wes@intele.net (Barnacle Wes) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 21:46:37 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605300432.WAA28640@intele.net> from Barnacle Wes at "May 29, 96 10:32:35 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)