In article <4c6b9...@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/17/10 12:59, AK wrote: > > On 08/16/2010 10:42 PM, James Mills wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:35 PM, AK<andrei....@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> As monitors are getting bigger, is there a general change in opinion on > >>> the 79 chars limit in source files? I've experimented with 98 characters > >>> per line and I find it quite a bit more comfortable to work with that > >>> length, even though sometimes I have to edit files in 80 width > >>> terminals, it's still easier to adapt to some inconvenience when that > >>> happens than the other way around, since about 95% of time or more, I do > >>> use wider editor window or terminal. > >>> > >>> Is going over 79 still a terrible thing to do? -andrei > >> > >> My personal opinion (despite monitors being wider) is > >> the horizontal scrolling isn't worth it. Stick to a 80-char width. > > > > But.. why horizontal scrolling, isn't autowrap much better than that? > > > Do you seriously use autowrapper when writing code? I absolutely use auto-indent, parenthesis matching, and syntax coloring. >From time to time, I turn on auto-wrap, but generally find it more annoying than useful and turn it back off again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
