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

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On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 12:20:50 -0800 (PST), sohcahtoa82@gmail.com declaimed
the following:


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>Are there still people that are limiting their terminals to 80 columns?  If so, why?  I mean, I can understand if you're running on an ancient square monitor, but I see no reason to limit your terminal to 80 columns if you're running any sort of window environment on monitor with a horizontal resolution greater than 1280.
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	Maybe because I don't run windows full screen -- preferring to be able
to see activity in other windows without having to resort the layers
constantly...

	I also prefer to view more vertical matter than horizontal. Two
alphabets is a common printing convention because it is just narrow enough
for the lines to be taken in as a whole visually, without excessive head or
eye rolling.

	Besides -- in most code, the crucial stuff is the leading edge of the
line <G> (keywords for structures: if/else/end if, for|while|loop/end
loop... the fine print of what is in those clauses may not be needed to get
the gist of the code)

	That said, I do tend to run 96 column (and 42 rows) {a 20% increase in
width, but 75% increase in height}
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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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