9 Nov
2017
9 Nov
'17
5:49 a.m.
On 11/8/2017 6:15 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
xterms killed that requirement for me a long time ago.
It killed 80 columns, but not 8 character hard tabs!
Whoever came up with 4 column tabs should be shot. ;)
On 11/8/2017 6:24 PM, Andy Kosela wrote:
On Thursday, November 9, 2017, Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net
<mailto:krewat@kilonet.net>> wrote:
xterms killed that requirement for me a long time ago.
I still use 80 columns on my xterms. Like Larry said, most things in
Unix still looks perfect on 80 columns display, plus it's easier to
read -- less eye movements from left to right. If you think about it,
regular books have a similar format. It has been
scientifically proven that very long lines are just harder and
slower to read.
Besides programming, system administration and other tasks these days
sometimes requires a few more columns than 80:
http://pdp10.kilonet.org/images/xterm.jpg
And that's just one example.
I forgot to mention my using xterms past 80 columns wasn't so much about
writing code (although, I do regularly go past 80 columns) but general
UNIX stuff too.
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BTW, no disrespect to anyone here, whatever floats your boat ;)
