From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,429176cb92b1b825 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end) References: Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:04:49 -0500 Message-ID: <8262tmiqn2.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ip6ei4s8P96GRNPQqS27LUIEbms= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 91d424d354997e029e66126711 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:17482 Date: 2011-01-18T03:04:49-05:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan writes: > On Jan 17, 5:47 am, Bill Findlay 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. Note that on a GUI display, the "wrapping mark" is in the margin, not in the text area. I use 120 character text areas; much more readable with reasonable name lengths. -- -- Stephe