From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 2 01:57:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA10790 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 01:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA10785 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 01:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0uQ8wF-000QdRC; Sun, 2 Jun 96 10:55 MET DST From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA15752; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:38:11 +0200 Message-Id: <199606020838.KAA15752@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Indentation styles To: wes@intele.net (Barnacle Wes) Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:38:11 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) In-Reply-To: <199605300432.WAA28640@intele.net> from "Barnacle Wes" at May 29, 96 10:32:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Barnacle Wes writes: > > Michael Smith reported: > % Ehh, even the VT100 can handle 132 columns 8) > > Joerg Wunsch retorted: >> 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! ;^) How do you get by with such a small display? Only 40 lines? I have 72, limited by the display resolution, and I could do with more. Greg