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Whenever I find myself trapped in one of these arguments, I discover pretty quickly that the difference between me (an 80 cols person) and my adversary (someone
by camgunz 1y ago
Whenever I find myself trapped in one of these arguments, I discover pretty quickly that the difference between me (an 80 cols person) and my adversary (someone much stupider) is that they're using 1 big beautiful buffer, and I have 6-8 columns of buffers side-by-side. To which I say: we both want the same things! We both want to use as much of these ridiculously wide monitors as we can. I'm doing it much better than you are. Come on in, the water is warm. :vsplit with me
- xenophonf 1y agoThat's exactly how I justified our 88-character code line length limit to a colleague. I split my screen into quarters and showed them how that let me keep useful context visible without having to break my focus by switching tabs/windows.
- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoExactly. Its not about how wide the paper is, but about how many sheets fit on your desk. Although I would recommend focusing at least one level higher than :vsplit, either at the terminal multiplexerv level or the (tiling) window manager level. Otherwise you end up wanting to run a shell in your editor... And what do you think this is, emacs?
- camgunz 1y agoLol I'm full "macvim is the best terminal" mode; I tell everyone I know. I'm too far gone
- eyegor 1y agoIf you really want the 80 col experience, I think that was the fortran 77 default. You'd even get compiler errors if you try to exceed it. Of course there were flags to increase the line length limit but don't tell your colleagues.
- pklausler 1y agoFixed-form Fortran source is 72 columns. Anything after column 72 is ignored without error as a comment.