Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?

[Aaron Bentley]

Tom Lord wrote:

> My gosh: programmers should really learn to use big windows and the
> tiniest fonts they can read.   The more information you compress on
> to the screen (or page) -- the better off you are.

I prefer my columns of text to be no more than half the width of the 
screen.  I find them easier to read that way, but that's just preference.

>     > I'd been assuming something wider, based on code I looked at,
>     > but your changes seem to wrap nicely in an 80-char terminal.
>
> What editor do you use?  If the breaks don't go in insane place, plus
> with the "harmonics" in my preferred 160..240 vs. 80-character lines
> .... what you describe is a hardly surprising and happy accident.

I use gvim, but I was looking at diffs in a terminal.  The changes were 
mostly to function declarations, so I now see why.

Aaron