Re: [Python-ideas] 80 character line width vs. something wider

On Tue, May 19, 2009, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

The days of 25x80 black and white CRTs are gone.

That's half-true; the problem is that windows more than eighty columns wide cover up too much of other windows. I have generally compromised on thirty lines as being the right balance of information per window versus not covering up too much of other windows. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." --Ralph Waldo Emerson