76 columns is sane. I believe the historical motivation is that 'diff' adds some several spaces to the left. At least I've worked for software companies that require this maximum width in the source files for that reason.
/Snobb On 30/11/15 07:08pm, FRIGN wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:04:19 +0100 > hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > well, his concern is legit. not all terminals show 80 columns. i have > > one open right now that doesn't, so your rule is not all that matters > > on the internet. what's worse: some people send mails with more than > > 80 chars per line. > > this is also one of the few reasons i recommend people not to use pdf > > and sometimes would even favor a light version of html over pdf. > > 80 columns is a sane default. Why are you trying to keep a discussion > alive which has been dead for hours? > For source-code, I even go for 75 columns and try not to exceed this limit > by more than 3 columns. It's more of a biological thing, given we humans > can only scan a line up to a certain length comfortably. > > Cheers > > FRIGN > > -- > FRIGN <d...@frign.de> >
