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

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 06:56:30PM -0500, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2009-05-26 18:12, Aahz wrote:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:47:05AM -0700, Aahz wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2009, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
>>>>> Personally, I would consider "objective arguments" to be controlled,
>>>>> repeatasble, studies with quantitative results.  I've seen such studies
>>>>> about light-background-dark-foreground vs. dark-foreground-
>>>>> light-background, which is why I use the former now.  I haven't seen
>>>>> such studies about line width, especially not with Python text as
>>>>> opposed to English text.
>>>> Personally, I would be amazed to see any significant difference between
>>>> the two foreground/background combinations you list.  ;-)
>>> Entirely off topic by now, but these differences are more significant
>>> for e.g. dyslectic people.  And these studies exist and are the reason
>>> exam papers in the UK are printed black on yellow etc.
>>
>> In case it wasn't clear, Zooko gave exactly the same color combo for
>> foreground/background, only reversed in ordering.  It was a jest at his
>> expense for the typo.
>
> Floris is obviously using a dark-foreground-light-background color 
> scheme, or he wouldn't have misread that.  :-)

Oh, re-read that a few times before I finally saw it.  Doh!  I
actually use both, light-before-dark on my terminals and
dark-before-light on my editor.  They're both so pretty...

Regards
Floris


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