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I see a lot of people saying that 80 char is a thing of the past, but that's not really my experience: My work machine is a macbook pro 13", I rarely have a se

I see a lot of people saying that 80 char is a thing of the past, but that's not really my experience: My work machine is a macbook pro 13", I rarely have a second monitor (and when I do, I tend to have my browser on it). I get 2 panes of just under 90 chars side-to-side in VSCode, with a normal-smallish font. Am I in such a minority?

squaresmile 6y ago
From the comments here, I guess we are so. I have a 1080p 14 inch laptop and with Consolas at 15px and it's pretty much exactly 2 panes of 80 chars in vscode. I would increase the limit if I can fit more though and I don't mind accommodating others who prefer a higher limit.
fzeroracer 6y ago
No, I currently work on a single screen laptop right now as well due to lacking the right cables to put together a multi-monitor setup. I always feel like when people advocate 'no 80 column terminals period' they're arguing from the standpoint of having never had to use anything smaller than an ultrawide resolution display or three+ monitors. Larger lines are almost unreadable on my screen and any sort of word wrapping only makes it worse, so often I'm stuck with one file open at a time slowly jumping between files. 80-column terminals as someone else brought up is an accessibility issue.