30 Jun
2008
30 Jun
'08
5:17 a.m.
Ross Paterson
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:28:54PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
1. word-wrap the description to fit in 80 columns
(+1). 70 and 80 are defensible, anything else seems a bit of a weird choice for line length...
79 is also defensible, as some terminals wrap if you use the 80th column.
and 72 is also defensible for historical reasons (cobol rather than fortran, I think). And I use 64 for readability reasons at a particular font size. Making it read the terminal width is clearly the best option. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated 2008-04-26)