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From: Bill Findlay <news@findlayw.plus.com>
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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!
That explains it.  I feel so avant-garde, being able to edit all 80
columns of a card image without such problems. 8-)

-- 
Bill Findlay
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