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

[Aahz]

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