[RFC] Coding Style: Longer Line Lengths?

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Tom Tsou tom at tsou.cc
Wed Apr 5 17:59:59 UTC 2017


On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> wrote:
> for egoistical reasons I'm in favor of a limit of 100 to 106 characters
> only.  Otherwise I can no longer fit three terminal windows next to each
> other on a (these day standard minimum display width) of 1920, which
> would be a major step back in terms of being able to look at multiple
> source files simultaneously.

With similar considerations, my maximum is 120 characters coming from
two terminal windows at display width of 1920. If one cannot fit two
windows of code side-by-side at such a resolution, then readability
has suffered.

  -TT



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