Re: Is 80-column source code formatting still standard ?

One point in favour of approx 80 character lines in both code and
writing is that apparently there is some suggestion that it's much
more natural to read text of that width than it is to read really long
lines. This occasionally comes up in web design too. (My hope with web
layouts is that one day soon browsers will make it easy to flow text in
80 character columns down the height of the viewport but that one
scrolls *sideways* to see more columns.)

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008, Mark Greenaway wrote:
> Mark, who has horrible memories of long arguments about this issue when 
> he was working as a programmer. What a waste of time.

It, and other religious debates that are going to result in diffs,
should be covered in your house style guide.

Whatever the width is, it's handy to have some kind of macro that
reminds you of it. There's a vim one that will turn unauthorised
chracters at the end of a line bright red.

-Mary
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