79 chars or more?

[AK]

On 08/16/2010 10:42 PM, James Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:35 PM, AK<andrei.avk at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> As monitors are getting bigger, is there a general change in opinion on
>> the 79 chars limit in source files? I've experimented with 98 characters
>> per line and I find it quite a bit more comfortable to work with that
>> length, even though sometimes I have to edit files in 80 width
>> terminals, it's still easier to adapt to some inconvenience when that
>> happens than the other way around, since about 95% of time or more, I do
>> use wider editor window or terminal.
>>
>> Is going over 79 still a terrible thing to do?  -andrei
>
> My personal opinion (despite monitors being wider) is
> the horizontal scrolling isn't worth it. Stick to a 80-char width.

But.. why horizontal scrolling, isn't autowrap much better than that?

  -andrei