On Thursday 07 June 2007 18:46:25 Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 08/06/07, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 07 June 2007 17:17:18 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The intel-rng printed a nice well formatted message when the port was > > > > disabled. Someone then came along and blindly trashed it by screwing > > > > up a trim down to 80 columns. > > > > > > Perhaps we should drop that 80-column style and use some 120+? > > > X or no X, almost all people now have more lines and columns on their > > > displays than MDA 20 years ago. > > > > > > 132 to match text VGA perhaps? > > > 80 can be left for the actual _output_, I mean number of chars printed > > > by kernel code. > > > > Why? My consoles are *all* still 80x24 text mode. It's only if I decide > > to monkey with the settings (and why fix what isn't broken?) or when I'm > > in X that I get a bigger screen than that. > > > > I think the general consensus on the 80 character lines isn't for the > > average home user, but for the people that have things like old Wyse > > terminals and such hooked up. > > Hmm, perhaps my eyes are just not as good as other peoples, but my X > runs at 1600x1200 and I have konsole in KDE configured so that when it > is maximized it is very close to a 80x25 window (actually it is 82x31 > with a size 18 font). > Nice and readable, if I make the font any smaller to fit more > cols/rows then the text gets too small and my eyes hurt. > Reading kernel code formatted for 80cols fits perfectly for me.
I know the feeling Jesper. There are times when I like to take my glasses off and set them to the side. When I do that I usually also kill X and work using nothing more than the console. The why is simple - my eyes are just that bad. If I stay in X and try to use it I wind up with a massive headache after only thirty minutes or so. DRH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
