From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 28 23:52:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA13348 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 23:52:34 -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 XAA13327 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 23:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA00327; Wed, 29 May 1996 08:51:53 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA23719; Wed, 29 May 1996 08:51:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA17629; Wed, 29 May 1996 08:29:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605290629.IAA17629@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Indentation styles To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:29:09 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, bde@zeta.org.au, grog@lemis.de, chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605290359.NAA05697@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "May 29, 96 01:29:44 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 Michael Smith wrote: > Ehh, even the VT100 can handle 132 columns 8) 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). -- 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. ;-)