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Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in
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On Jan 18, 9:04=A0am, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
wrote:
> I use 120 character text areas; much more readable with reasonable name
> lengths.

But hard to read a diff and almost impossible to have a side by side
view
to resolve merge conflicts (with meld, diffuse...)

Newspaper have short lines to help read fast. Longer the line is,
harder it
is to go back to the next line.

Pascal.