-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 17/07/14 08:57, Johan Tibell wrote:
* Wider screens let you have several Emacs buffers next to each other. At 80 chars you can have about 2 buffers next to each other on a 13" screen. This is my main grief with 100 char lines (which is the Android standard, by the way). I like to have 6 or 8 files open side by side (including diffs and other meta-code).
* The eye has trouble traveling back to the next line if lines get too long (at least when reading prose). Research says around 60-70 characters is optimal, if I recall correctly. 66 as far as I remember, but that number is for prose and thus not *very* relevant, as Manuel points out. But I do think it's a problem in code too, regardless of the exact number. Being at 80+ is also often an indication that you're in dire need of refactoring.
So while we're all chiming in, my preferences in order: 78 72 80 less than 72 more than 80 - -- Alexander alexander@plaimi.net https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlPHkAIACgkQRtClrXBQc7VVpwD+K2Q8NYplnmJdNYTulHx4hQBP GVeBJjYQifYrr6MoQq8BAJNP3IUyq+pg+VsGqJg4tCkrv6nmfM1teExzE2avz0/u =76Tq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----