On 12/15/2009 2:24 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 15.12.2009 21:53, Sean Nelson wrote:
On 12/14/2009 8:31 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
I would like to move the column limit from 80 to some other agreed-upon value, but I don't know which one.
- 100
- 120
- 132
The reason for 80-column limit is due to historical reasons, IMO, but we could go with 4-space tabs and 100-column limit. I found with that setting almost everything can be fit on a line if need be. Anything bigger, I think there _is_ a better way to code a problem.
I'm against replacing tabs with spaces. It increases typing effort a lot and that is painful especially if you reindent a big hunk of code (and the indent tool is unusable without manual fixups).
Regards, Carl-Daniel
I don't know if its possible, I think vim and TextMate (the two editors I use all the time) allows setting the style of tabs. And I've seen vim comments for files that set the 4-column tabs. I don't really care what we use.
I only knew that dot matrix printers and old computer terminals used the 80 columns-width. I didn't know that its a standard from the 1890s. Thanks Ron.