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Hi, |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>: |
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> 2010/1/17 Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>: |
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> >> Oh heck no. There's no excuse for using 70 or 80 columns for source |
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> >> code any more. My old laptop can fit 100 across the screen |
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> >> comfortably, which is much cleaner to work with. |
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> > We don't talk about source code but continous text even if having |
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> > some mark-up around. And best readability for such text is around |
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> > 60 characters per line, languages with long words may have more. |
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> And the *generated* text is wrapped that way, or however else we want |
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> it to be. We're discussing the source code, however, which is a whole |
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> other thing, and none of your readability studies for printed texts |
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> are relevant for it. |
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But usually I read diffs on the screen and seldomly read PMS in |
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formatted text, so not my readability studies but scientific facts |
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apply here as well. |
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> I don't want you to go and break 'git blame' etc and screw around with |
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> something that doesn't need changing, yes. The not-quite-arbitrary |
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> decision of "what fits on my laptop screen" that was originally made |
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> is equally as good as or better than any alternative. |
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git blame is an argument, right. The line wrapping goes on my nerve |
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for quite some time but I postponed any complaints until some real work |
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is done. |
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V-Li |
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-- |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> |