6 Nov
2020
6 Nov
'20
9:19 p.m.
> I think you're jumping to conclusions. The
importance of 80
> characters (for small values of 80) is that it's a comfortable text
> width for human eyes.
Exactly this.
Yes -- this is the (or at least "an") argument for two-column text
on wide (8.5x11 or A4, or larger) paper pages.
It's also why I'm fine with smaller screens,
I tried the giant apple
displays and found that those required head movement along with eye
movement.
I'm lazy.
I am too, but I still use a big screen: I just fit a lot of
smaller windows in it. I'd like to have a literal wall screen,
especially if I'm in an interior, windowless (as in physical glass
windows) room, so that part of the wall could be a "window"
showing a view "outside" (real time, or the ocean, or whatever)
and other parts of the wall could be the text I'm working on/with,
etc.
(But I'll make do with these 27" 4k displays. :-) )
Chris