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Have pity on those with small screens. How small are your screen(s)? What resolution do you run them at? What size font? Do you have eyesight issues? I hav
by WalterGR 9y ago
Have pity on those with small screens.
How small are your screen(s)? What resolution do you run them at? What size font? Do you have eyesight issues?
I have decent vision at monitor distance. On a 13-inch Macbook Pro, using a font of reasonable size, I can easily diff two files with a line length of 108 - side-by-side.
I'm curious, then, why others can't do that. (Eyesight issues aside, of course.)
(Whether code lines should be 108 characters long is a separate issue.)
- marvy 9y agoAt home, my desktop has a resolution of 1366x768. (I usually use my laptop, which is higher than that, but whatever.) At work, I have monitors in the "portrait" position, so I only have 1080 horizontal pixels unless I'm willing to split something across two screens. (Never!) But in this case, all that is not relevant. The link was to Github, and Github enforces a width of less than a thousand pixels, regardless of screen size.
- WalterGR 9y agoI have monitors in the "portrait" position Excellent, thanks. That's something I hadn't considered. But in this case, all that is not relevant. The link was to Github, and Github enforces... Ah. I assumed you were speaking generally.
- marvy 9y agoWell, I mostly was. Long lines are _generally_ inconvenient. Everything from portrait screens to websites that won't use the full screen width to someone who wants to a printout of the code for some reason (even printing in landscape is not enough).