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!npeer03.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: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:12:48 -0500 Message-ID: <82pqrtgn9r.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7uJOx9qDRQPNwklB3wUNLWmxkeo= 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: 8a6454d36c720e029e66126513 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16553 Date: 2011-01-19T06:12:48-05:00 List-Id: Bill Findlay writes: > On 18/01/2011 00:45, in article > a4cd6433-57ed-49ae-9d30-4f358c28caac@m20g2000prc.googlegroups.com, "Adam > Beneschan" wrote: > >> 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. > > 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