On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Larry McVoy wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I live on Linux and it has
made some stuff
pleasantly clickable. I use virtual desktops, I have 6 of them. There
are xterms in 5 out of 6, the last one has firefox. I click but I
mostly live in terminal windows. Which are all 80 columns because
that's the right width (I can go on and on about that).
Almost all of my xterms are 80 cols for the same reason, but I do have one
that is about 160 cols for things like "sdiff" etc. Or if I'm feeling
nostalgic I'll use 120 cols :-)
They are also mostly 24 rows, except for a couple of 40-row ones for email
(more context) and source editing (ditto).
I was brought up on 80x24 (along with a status line which could be
addressed either with an escape sequence or the "25th row") so it feels
"right" for me (we'll ignore the 72x20 VT-05 for now).
-- Dave