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I guess most of us, pragmatic people, agree that 80 columns is not a sane standard anymore. The more interesting question is "what would be a good default line
by Fiahil 6y ago
I guess most of us, pragmatic people, agree that 80 columns is not a sane standard anymore.
The more interesting question is "what would be a good default line length in 2020?"
I vote for 120 columns.
- jacobsenscott 6y agoGithub is the new fixed width terminal, and 120 columns is about right for that. That's our standard.
- zajio1am 6y agoI would say that 120 is too much - for 1920px (still widespread resolution) and split screen (2x120), one would need 8px-wide font to fit and no other borders. 8px-wide font is IMHO not enough for good readability, even VGA in 198x switched to 9px-wide fonts (from EGA 8px-wide fonts). Next natural values are 106 (for 9px fonts) and 95 (for 10px fonts).
- Twixes 6y agoFew use bitmap fonts today, especially with retina displays and whatnot
- zenlot 6y agoGood line length for 2020 is 80 columns.
- kakwa_ 6y agoI would vote for something around ~100 with a tolerance for ~130 (CI/linter warning if between 100 and 130, maybe with a threshold limiting the proportion of lines per file in warning so that the tolerance is not abused).