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tab stops is still available in terminals. Tab in terminal move the cursor to next x*8(depends on setting) position independent of what character you input befo
by mmis1000 4y ago
tab stops is still available in terminals. Tab in terminal move the cursor to next x*8(depends on setting) position independent of what character you input before.
But a major flaw is that it only works when your cell has less than 8 characters. Or it will go to the wrong stop. Which isn't that common today.
Because why insist in short names and 80 width character limit? Almost everyone have a screen that can fit hundreds of characters per line today.
- eru 4y ago> Because why insist in short names and 80 width character limit? Almost everyone have a screen that can fit hundreds of characters per line today. Yet, books don't work that way, even though we have the technology. Long lines aren't readable. There's a reason newspapers have columns. See eg https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length
- mmis1000 4y agoEven without the line length problem, 8 character is unlikely to fit in a meaningful word. And because you need a space between each column, you actually only have 7. And nobody using random abbreviations now.