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personal opinion: text or code that tries to keep to 72 or 80 columns on screen is good, because that lets you more easily subdivide the screen into individual panes for different files without any of them getting cut off or force-wrapped

27 Jun 2023 at 7:41 | Open on toot.cat
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ghlyffe

@rnd If you do this, it is. I like to have my text idea full-width, though, primarily for focus reasons, which makes this the worst possible thing other than using huge text (large text hurts my eyes to read, so it's functionally unusable, rather than a waste of screen space)

27 Jun 2023 at 7:43 | Open on toot.cat
ghlyffe

@rnd I will add, I don't have a solution for this, but it is something I think of all the time. I still work somewhere that technically forces 80 chars as a coding guideline (although rarely, if ever, enforced), and I hear lots of people say "Oh, but what about people who need larger text?"
And yeah, we need a solution that caters to people who need large text, people who need small text, people who tile their editors, people who don't...I don't know what the answer is.

I do agree it isn't force-wrap, though, I don't see that ever working.

@rnd I will add, I don't have a solution for this, but it is something I think of all the time. I still work somewhere that technically forces 80 chars as a coding guideline (although rarely, if ever, enforced), and I hear lots of people say "Oh, but what about people who need larger text?"
And yeah, we need a solution that caters to people who need large text, people who need small text, people who tile their editors, people who don't...I don't know what the answer is.

27 Jun 2023 at 7:45 | Open on toot.cat
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