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From: Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@foss.arm.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
	Allan Sandfeld Jensen <linux@carewolf.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>,
	libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Increase libstdc++ line length to 100(?) columns
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 12:11:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e234320-108c-7784-df03-d5a2fc214b73@foss.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kl8aws8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

On 29/11/2020 17:38, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Allan Sandfeld Jensen:
> 
>> If you _do_ change it. I would suggest changing it to 120, which is next 
>> common step for a lot of C++ projects.
> 
> 120 can be problematic for a full HD screen in portrait mode.  Nine
> pixels per character is not a lot (it's what VGA used), and you can't
> have any window decoration.  With a good font and screen, it's doable.
> But if the screen isn't quite sharp, then I think you wouldn't be able
> to use portrait mode anymore.
> 

Please remember that not everyone has 20:20 vision.  Requiring a
terminal width that's so large that the text is wrapped (or, worse, you
get horizontal scroll bars) is not acceptable, IMO.

R.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-26 23:50 Jonathan Wakely
2020-11-27  2:45 ` Liu Hao
2020-11-27  8:14   ` Richard Biener
2020-11-27  8:21     ` Ville Voutilainen
2020-11-27  9:49     ` Liu Hao
2020-11-27 10:13       ` Ville Voutilainen
2020-11-27 11:08 ` Allan Sandfeld Jensen
2020-11-29 17:38   ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-29 18:51     ` Allan Sandfeld Jensen
2020-11-30 15:47       ` Michael Matz
2020-11-30 16:28         ` Allan Sandfeld Jensen
2020-11-30 16:44           ` Michael Matz
2020-12-03 12:11     ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
2020-11-27 21:46 ` Ed Smith-Rowland
2020-11-28 12:16 ` Thomas Koenig

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