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When I read text I prefer it to use the lessons of typography and not be overly wide, lest my saccadic motion leads my immersion and comprehension astray.
by PaulDavisThe1st 11mo ago
When I read text I prefer it to use the lessons
of typography and not be overly wide, lest my saccadic
motion leads my immersion and comprehension astray.
However when I read code I do not want to scan downwards to complete the semantics of a given expression because that will also break my comprehension and so when a line of code is long I'd prefer for it to remain long unless there are actually multiple clauses
and other conditionally chained
semantic elements
that are more easily read alone
- iknowstuff 11mo agooof this looks awful on mobile, with extra line breaks
- PaulDavisThe1st 11mo agoI don't know any way to force line breaks on HN without extra line breaks ... do you?
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- strogonoff 11mo agoYou can’t do it unless you can place linebreaks differently according to everybody’s screen width. This is a good illustration of why 80 character rule works; then everyone’s screen would be at least 80 character wide.