[Python-ideas] 80 character line width vs. something wider
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed May 20 01:50:03 CEST 2009
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.
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