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Re: Maintaining Maximum Line Length When Using Tabs Instead of Spaces?

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sohcahtoa82@gmail.com writes:

> My terminals are 120 columns wide.

Mine are wider. So what?

> Are there still people that are limiting their terminals to 80
> columns?

I don't know. Terminal width is not the sole reason to keep code lines
within 80 columns.

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Ben Finney

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Re: Maintaining Maximum Line Length When Using Tabs Instead of Spaces? jtan <admin@grails.asia> - 2014-12-08 10:25 +0800
  Re: Maintaining Maximum Line Length When Using Tabs Instead of Spaces? sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-12-08 12:20 -0800
    Re: Maintaining Maximum Line Length When Using Tabs Instead of Spaces? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-12-09 08:41 +1100
    Re: Maintaining Maximum Line Length When Using Tabs Instead of Spaces? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-08 17:57 -0500
    Re: Maintaining Maximum Line Length When Using Tabs Instead of Spaces? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-12-08 20:17 -0500

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