On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:22:20PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > Besides, it's known that humans have less ability to concentrate on reading > > text written in very short and very long columns. 80 characters (sometimes > > less) is a common limit for e-mail and most other e-documents[1], so why not > > use it in our wmls? > > Because those aren't things that "normal" people access? It's just the > source code for the web site.
That we have to edit and maintain. It's a pain to maintain obfuscated code, and it's the same with the documentation. And we all know how people like maintaining documentation even less than they like maintaining code. :( > But I'm not really complaining about that, I'm complaining about > combining formatting changes with content changes. On more than one > occasion I've missed the content update because it was in the middle of > a massive formatting update. > > If you need to do a formatting update and a content update, PLEASE do > them as two separate commits. That way it's much easier to find what > has actually been changed. That I can agree with. Sorry, I'll try to do that next time. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
