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Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code


From: Lars Brinkhoff
Subject: Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:53:51 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux)

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Emacs has tried to keep the line width of the source code at 80
> characters since Emacs was created.

Historical side note: The AI Lab PDP-10 on which the first Emacs was
created had Datapoint 3300 terminals that were 72 characters wide.




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