Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:33:29 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) Message-ID: <199901300233.VAA01228@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990130104943.W8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901290941240.304-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com> <199901291802.LAA67403@harmony.village.org> <19990130104943.W8473@freebie.lemis.com>
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<<On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:49:43 +1030, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> said: > Question: how many people still limit their editor windows to 80 > characters? Probably almost anyone who uses the default settings. Many people like to be able to see more than one thing on the desktop at a time. Even with a 1280x1024 display on a good 19-inch monitor, I still can't fit two 80-character windows side-by-side if I want to be able to read the font. That's ignoring other issues like trying to print such documents. HP printers don't do auto-wrap (and even if they did it wouldn't respect any semantic value in the code). Before XFree86 3.3.3 came out, my laptop could not run X -- presto, automatic 80-character limitation. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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