From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 27 21:36:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6736F37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:36:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool-151-201-19-185.pitt.east.verizon.net (pool-151-201-19-185.pitt.east.verizon.net [151.201.19.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1A543F93 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dacut@kanga.org) Received: from kanga.org (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pool-151-201-19-185.pitt.east.verizon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC18010C3EE for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:36:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E5EF568.4040800@kanga.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:36:40 -0500 From: David Cuthbert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C coding editor References: <20030221122103.GA2073@asterix.local> <3E5A4264.2010801@millions.ca> <3E5A4BA9.5010700@mitre.org> <200302260841.40693.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <200302260841.40693.wes@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters wrote: > Seriously, limiting your programming for a lifetime to 80 columns > because you couldn't figure out how to make some grotty old dot > matrix printer do 8-point printing a decade ago really isn't all > that smart, is it? No, but I still find 80 columns to be a reasonable limit. The average person can comfortably track up to about 65 characters on a line in prose (or so I've been told from a study that was related to me from a forgotten source...). Given that there's more whitespace in code, it's probably a bit more. The 80 column limit can also encourage developers to keep their functions smaller and factor out common code. (I say can, because I've seen the six-levels-of-indentation-loops sadly all too often...) > I'm still disappointed at programming editors that can't make sense > of normal typefaces and have to be used with monospaced fonts. I've tried it, mainly to see what it looks like. Unfortunately, the delimiters that have a great deal of meaning in many languages (parens, braces, brackets, single quotes, etc.) end up being far too small for my eyes. For some reason, though, I've seen a lot of VHDL code typeset in books in proportional fonts, though usually with boldface highlighting of reserved words. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message