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: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer01.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: <8262tmiqn2.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <130b9947-32a1-40b3-bb75-73a3d8ba24b2@j25g2000vbs.googlegroups.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:17:34 -0500 Message-ID: <82lj2hgn1t.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2HUM5j9YWE7W9GJfmR6pQDRJ2i8= 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: f067b4d36c83ee029e66103210 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16554 Date: 2011-01-19T06:17:34-05:00 List-Id: "pascal.obry@gmail.com" writes: > On Jan 18, 9:04 am, Stephen Leake > wrote: >> I use 120 character text areas; much more readable with reasonable name >> lengths. > > But hard to read a diff Why? > and almost impossible to have a side by side view to resolve merge > conflicts (with meld, diffuse...) No problem on a 24" 1920 x 1024 display. > Newspaper have short lines to help read fast. Longer the line is, > harder it > is to go back to the next line. Yes, but there is also such a thing as "too short". The optimum length depends on the length of the individual words, and on the typical amount of indentation. Reading natural language prose is _not_ the same process as reading Ada code. -- -- Stephe