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On 01/19/2011 12:19 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>
> I agree that /some/limitation is necessary, but 80 is far to narrow,
> leading to excessive folding in nested constructs. My personal taste is
> for 120 columns - no problem to view that with any editor, even on small
> screens.

For about 25 years, I have used as many characters as could be printed in 
landscape on a sheet of paper with a readable, mono-space font: 130. I have 
never had any problem with this limit.

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Jeff Carter
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