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From: | John W. Eaton |
Subject: | Re: Octave line length |
Date: | Mon, 13 Jan 2020 23:20:29 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 |
On 1/13/20 5:18 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
Is it easy to ask the reformatting tool to not break any expressions into multiple lines and then get a distribution of line lengths for all lines? I think it would be interesting to see just how many lines are longer than 80, 90, 100, ... characters.On 1/13/20 6:06 PM, Rik wrote:On 01/13/2020 11:30 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:On 1/13/20 11:02 AM, Rik wrote:With that in mind, I would suggest we stop enforcing an 80-character limit. It isn't particularly important given that programmers are working on 25" HiDPI monitors these days. Instead, what I value is the clarity of intent.Let's not go too long! Now that we have large monitors, some of us use them to fit multiple editor and console windows side-by-side. A limit of 80-100 lines is still useful in those cases. Also some of us are working on 13" laptops.
> And I'll bet there's some old curmudgeons in the Octave > community still running on 80-column terminal emulators.Emulator?!? I still have a Wyse CRT terminal! (But it's in a box and I haven't used it in many years.)
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