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I agree, and it's not mainly because of splitting the screen. Very long lines of code just read badly, even if you have the screen-space to fit them. It's easy
by ajuc 8y ago
I agree, and it's not mainly because of splitting the screen. Very long lines of code just read badly, even if you have the screen-space to fit them.
It's easy to skip and forget where you were when you look to compare the code to something and then look back.
- dkersten 8y agoYep, there's a reason most article/blog sites use a fixed-width column of text. Long free-flowing lines of text are simply hard to read. I also used to not care about side-by-side, but now, I find it too useful. Besides, nobody wants to scroll to read git diffs.