On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Colin Adams <colinpauladams@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not viewing on a narrow device, and I see the wrapped (and the whole post confined to the centre of the screen).

I certainly don't use an 80-column limit any more. I use the rule:

A function must be completely visible in my editor on my screen. (but this is only a good rule if most people who will be reading the code will also have a similar sized viewport. After all, code is far more often read than written.)

And I balance line length with function length.

Very good point: getting the line to fit in one screen-line is of comparable importance to getting a function into one screen.

And especially when one is teaching, (as Roman easily figured out!) having to scroll up and down in the midst of explanations is a certain show-spoiler.


On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote:
On the other hand, readable cross-platform text formatting always seems to be a lost cause, as this mail and the referenced blog posting demonstrate.
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Sent from my Android tablet with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my swyping.

As for the wraparound problems, hopefully they are now solved (for normal computers!)
I'd appreciate hearing if they are not.
And Thanks Colin for the debugging support!

Clearly prettifying code and prettifying a blog are different issues and putting them together makes a harder constraint-solving problem (especially for a blogger noob!)

Rusi