From: Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:50:23 +0100
Date: 2011-01-18T09:50:25+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d355450$0$6891$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4cd6433-57ed-49ae-9d30-4f358c28caac@m20g2000prc.googlegroups.com>
On 1/18/11 1:45 AM, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Jan 17, 5:47 am, Bill Findlay<n...@findlayw.plus.com> wrote:
>
>>>> A line should never be longer than 79 characters,
>>>> not counting the line separator.
>>
>>> I fully agree with this is some sense (just that I use 78
>>> characters instead of 79).
>>
>> Why 78/79 and not 80, as I have always used?
>
> I tend to make all my windows 80 characters wide. I use EMACS, which
> reserves the 80th character for a wrapping indicator, so that if you
> used it on a source with an 80-character line, EMACS would display
> only 79 of those on the first line, put a mark in the 80th character
> indicating that the line is wrapped, and then display the 80th
> character on the next line.
Emacs seems to be off by 1, then ;-) To edit a card image (an
instructive idea!) I'd toggle-truncate-lines and then
set-variable hscroll-margin to 1 (or 0). Unfortunately, this
hides the 80th character behind the truncation indicator $. I
cannot believe that an editor capable of patching binary files
and viper-mode forces display of a useless EOL character? OTOH,
it is written in C...
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2011-01-17 5:07 AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end) Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-17 5:18 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 4:06 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-17 6:43 ` Shark8
2011-01-17 10:22 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-17 10:23 ` pascal.obry
2011-01-17 10:49 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-17 10:54 ` pascal.obry
2011-01-18 19:07 ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-18 19:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 20:44 ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-18 21:03 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 22:16 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 6:58 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-19 9:15 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 20:16 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-19 22:42 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-01-19 22:21 ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-20 1:52 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-18 20:23 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-18 21:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-18 22:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-19 0:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-19 1:06 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 7:00 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-19 8:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 10:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-19 11:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 13:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-19 21:56 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 23:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-16 18:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-16 20:13 ` Shark8
2011-03-16 21:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-16 22:01 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-19 1:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-16 19:59 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 22:20 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 22:11 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-25 20:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-17 13:47 ` Bill Findlay
2011-01-17 14:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-17 21:12 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-18 8:03 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-18 20:41 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-18 0:45 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 1:40 ` Bill Findlay
2011-01-19 11:12 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-18 6:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 6:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 8:04 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-18 9:11 ` pascal.obry
2011-01-19 11:17 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-19 11:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 8:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-18 8:50 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2011-01-18 14:20 ` sjw
2011-01-18 15:41 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 0:58 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 1:43 ` Bill Findlay
2011-01-18 6:10 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 7:02 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-18 7:14 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-01-18 7:26 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 12:42 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-01-18 21:09 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 22:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-18 22:35 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-18 23:37 ` tmoran
2011-01-20 2:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-18 8:06 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-18 8:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-18 15:45 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-18 22:03 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 7:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-19 9:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 13:31 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-20 1:53 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-19 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-19 9:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 10:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-19 12:16 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-24 5:13 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-24 8:29 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 13:39 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-19 14:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-19 14:52 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-19 15:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-19 21:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 22:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-19 21:47 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 19:17 ` Robert Matthews
2011-01-21 19:54 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-19 18:02 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-01-19 11:21 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-19 13:32 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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