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On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 22:06:07 -0500, c186282 wrote:

> On 3/3/25 2:19 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:24:04 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> On 03/03/2025 10:05, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
>>>> Some would probably get on your case for being profligate with
>>>> vertical space... but honestly, it doesn't much matter with the kind
>>>> of screen real estate we have these days. I do agree that your style
>>>> has readability benefits.
>>>
>>> Yes. Back in the day when I debugged with 80 column dot matrix
>>> printouts, it got messy.
>>> To day with collapsible blocks on a gui it's a lot easier
>> 
>> I still prefer statements that don't exceed 80 columns.
> 
>    Wise. Not only doesn't fit a standard terminal but it's harder to get
>    the gist if the line runs off the screen. Run into this editing with
>    nano kinda often alas.

It's for Python but I agree with most of PEP 8.  Black or ruff do a nice 
job of reformatting .py files if I get sloppy. 

I use nano very rarely. One of the first things I do on any machine is 
install Vim, preferable gVim. I rarely use the menus or graphic features 
of gVim but I like not losing the terminal.