From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25299 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2019 18:12:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 25272 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2019 18:12:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=H*f:sk:e930ecb, divided, H*i:sk:e930ecb, H*r:a17 X-HELO: mail-ed1-f65.google.com Received: from mail-ed1-f65.google.com (HELO mail-ed1-f65.google.com) (209.85.208.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:12:45 +0000 Received: by mail-ed1-f65.google.com with SMTP id m8so3461553edi.13 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2019 10:12:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gwmail-gwu-edu.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=6AuG9/A21QFYRlIl/2hTuasB2CRiwAk0qQaIhGI8hM4=; b=NMCgKi0k63IxP5G430pkXJRJQjoSQxHvz0lN3uEMa/0/g/XuI0SoRyEod+n4r+5Cut bzvXiW4WVoY4rAZ8bsw60YXPx9VyyKjH9wsrY5f7hm/Ksa7uoZA4tMttNsaA//oA1USb OctGgVo+PKnuLXGwdeLG9p83ZFcS7T6wgUhdgHEgVBfjQO/sNaWLeHJOnd1PufhNAf8O nBDZLvx5/Q3g4wAONj+UqTeYN/hYZ21eyeipS9NNPoKBk5abkHdSg9fHUgKEsZUsU0MF G36WQS37aqwoZn4Jvyg8eNNtt0x2G3yleAfhoZPUpsxIrGVvlKCFC/KxaNw5iGPFl/FU uDmA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a17:906:c317:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 10:12:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <8be82276-81b1-817c-fcd2-51f24f5fe2d2@codesourcery.com> <20191205151515.GS10088@tucnak> <87lfrq6ahm.fsf@euler.schwinge.homeip.net> From: Eric Gallager Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:12:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] Characters per line: from punch card (80) to line printer (132) To: Andrew Stubbs Cc: Joseph Myers , Thomas Schwinge , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, fortran@gcc.gnu.org, Jakub Jelinek , Tobias Burnus , Michael Meissner Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00080.txt.bz2 On 12/5/19, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > On 05/12/2019 16:17, Joseph Myers wrote: >> Longer lines mean less space for multiple terminal / editor windows >> side-by-side to look at different pieces of code. I don't think that's >> an >> improvement. > > Here's a data-point .... > > My 1920 pixel-wide screen, in the default font, allows 239 columns; not > enough for two 130-wide editors. Especially not with line numbers and > "gutter" columns. > > On the other hand, 80 columns does tend to cause some formatting > contortions, with long function names and deeper indentations. > > I think a nice round 100 would be a good compromise. Here's mine: My 1280 pixel-wide screen allows 179 columns, which comes to 89.5 columns when divided by 2. I think rounding up to 90 columns would be a good compromise, although if that's too small, 100 is good as well. > > Andrew >