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I checked two commits and they both had exactly the same number of chars per line, e.g. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/c4c812c15445f5c3df6b1f4a426f
by pixelpoet 2y ago
I checked two commits and they both had exactly the same number of chars per line, e.g. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/c4c812c15445f5c3df6b1f4a426f8ee89d3d20ac https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/c4c812c15445f5c3...
I enjoy doing this too sometimes and don't find it too difficult, but damn...
- whenlambo 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc
- lioeters 2y agoI have found my people.
- cgh 2y agoAmazing, thank you for this.
- pixelpoet 2y agoI thought I was alone!! wipes tears of joy
- bdjsiqoocwk 2y agoWell. Lorem Ipsum vs Donald Knuth. I think they both suck. I have a different hero. Linus Torvalds. He IS good AND actually delivers. I enjoyed the video. However, both the author and Donald Keith strike as two people who are mainly motivated by aesthetics (which is supremely ironic as they almost define themselves as being the opposite of Loren Ipsum). I like people who deliver results. I think the author mostly likes the appearance of someone who pays attention to detail. He says that in a movie if it's obvious that the coffee cups are empty, he notices and bothers him. 3 minutes later in his video he has a guy using his laptop at the beach where glare would make it impossible to see anything on the screen.
- lproven 2y agoBack in the pre-GUI era, I did this with all my posts and comments online. All fully-justified, both margins, without any extra whitespace: just careful choice of words, and occasional (but always normal standard) abbreviations. It was fun, once practised it barely slowed me down, and when people noticed it blew their minds. Then along came GUIs and proportional fonts and made it all invisible. :'(
- eesmith 2y agoMichael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, was known for this style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart#Writing_style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart#Writing_style See examples at http://hart.pglaf.org/ http://hart.pglaf.org/ .
- lproven 2y agoHuh! I never knew. Never saw an intentional example on the wider internet before. It was a Thing™ for me and about 2 others on the old UK CIX service.
- neerajk 2y agoWe'll give "real actual bug" a pass :)
- edp 2y agoThere is a complete super metroid walkthrough using this technique : https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs/10114 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs...
- ramses0 2y agocfg.linebreaks: LLM-plain-tex /s
- tiffanyh 2y agoIt's a bit easier to do when you don't limit yourself to exactly 80-char per line Those commits were 72-chars per line. Which is easier to do than EXACTLY 80 character per line
- aidenn0 2y ago72 characters per line is a common standard for git commit messages. If you use vim, the syntax highlighting will nudge you to exactly that number. https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-mess...
- layer8 2y ago72 characters is the standard limit for Git though. This convention has a long tradition from the text-mode days of email and Usenet in 80-column terminals/screens, where 72 characters allowed for the addition of a reasonable number of quoting levels (indicated by prefixing quoted lines with “>”), and/or for other line markers, before exceeding the screen width and having to reformat.
- hyperman1 2y agoCOBOL code seems to live in 72 columns, with the last 8 columns of a punch card were 'free for programmer use'. Now I am wondering if somehow, some ancient COBOL limit ended up in git because every tool picked it up as convention from an older tool.