From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end)
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:12:48 -0500
Date: 2011-01-19T06:12:48-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82pqrtgn9r.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: C95AA01C.4688%news@findlayw.plus.com
Bill Findlay <news@findlayw.plus.com> writes:
> On 18/01/2011 00:45, in article
> a4cd6433-57ed-49ae-9d30-4f358c28caac@m20g2000prc.googlegroups.com, "Adam
> Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> 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.
>
> Ah, EMACS: 1970s software that's as bad as 1970s terminal hardware!
Emacs (It's no longer an acronym) has been around that long, but unlike
the terminal hardware, it has undergone continual improvement. The
current release is far better than any other IDE I've tried.
--
-- Stephe
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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 [this message]
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
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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