I clean up in drracket with 80-column wide ;; --- lines. So there's support for the idea.
On Jul 31, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Robby Findler wrote at 07/31/2010 11:19 AM: >> >> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Matthias Felleisen >> <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >> >>> 1. Could drracket limit the width of programs in the teaching language >>> world to 80 columns? >>> >> >> This one seems doable (I'd probably make the text turn red when it passes >> the 80th column or somethign instead of rejecting keystrokes). >> > > If it's a visual indicator, I would very much like to have that available as > an option in the non-teaching languages as well. After working on a file in > DrRacket for a while, I usually have to clean up the new overly-long lines in > Emacs. > > Typical indicators are a gray line in the background after column 79 or 80, > or a background color change there, like from white to light gray. > > I'm not sure about red. Sometimes, rightward drift and a long identifier or > literal means you have no practical choice but to violate the 79/80 border. > IMHO, border incursion is not quite as grave an offense as some of the other > things for which we might want to use red. > > Regarding 79 or 80, 80 is now good for lots of people who previously had to > use 79, though probably some people would like the option of 79. (For a long > time, it was 79 for lots of Unix people, first because some terminals would > to an automatic newline of some kind on a write in column 80, and then > because some tools liked to put adornments in column 80. Some tools still > like to.) 100 also seems a popular max width in some people's 'coding > standards'. MS Visual Studio, for example, lets you set this border to an > arbitrary number, IIRC. > > -- > http://www.neilvandyke.org/ > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
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