Aahz wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2009, Ron Adam wrote:
Aahz wrote:
I'm mostly having light-hearted fun with it. The conversation wasn't going anywhere from the start. I do find it funny that so many think 80 is exactly the right number regardless of other whitespace conventions or regardless of the language being used. If that's what you think people are saying, I don't think you are using sufficient care in your reading. It seems to me that people are mostly saying that eighty columns is enough for many purposes, there are
On Thu, May 21, 2009, Raymond Hettinger wrote: problems that would come from increasing the number of columns, and there aren't any solid arguments that clearly demonstrate that the gains outweigh the detriments. Well, on Ubuntu I use the gnome terminal which has line width settings of 80 and 132. It doesn't have any settings in-between. So I use 80X24 because it gives me plenty of room to see other windows.
Actually, you can have different window sizes, either by dragging with a mouse or using the command-line option --geometry.
Heh, I'm sure I've done that quite a few times and then forgotten about it.
I found that if I use small font sizes, I tend to lean closer to the monitor than I should and that causes my neck and back to ache if I'm at my computer for longer than a few hours. So although I can reduce the font size and get a lot more characters across the screen, it is better for my health if I don't do that.
Very this.