On 08/06/07, Daniel Hazelton <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thursday 07 June 2007 17:17:18 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Alan Cox <[email protected]> writes:
> > The intel-rng printed a nice well formatted message when the port was
> > disabled. Someone then came along and blindly trashed it by screwing up a
> > trim down to 80 columns.
>
> Perhaps we should drop that 80-column style and use some 120+?
> X or no X, almost all people now have more lines and columns on their
> displays than MDA 20 years ago.
>
> 132 to match text VGA perhaps?
> 80 can be left for the actual _output_, I mean number of chars printed
> by kernel code.
Why? My consoles are *all* still 80x24 text mode. It's only if I decide to
monkey with the settings (and why fix what isn't broken?) or when I'm in X
that I get a bigger screen than that.
I think the general consensus on the 80 character lines isn't for the average
home user, but for the people that have things like old Wyse terminals and
such hooked up.
Hmm, perhaps my eyes are just not as good as other peoples, but my X
runs at 1600x1200 and I have konsole in KDE configured so that when it
is maximized it is very close to a 80x25 window (actually it is 82x31
with a size 18 font).
Nice and readable, if I make the font any smaller to fit more
cols/rows then the text gets too small and my eyes hurt.
Reading kernel code formatted for 80cols fits perfectly for me.
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