Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end)

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:45:16 +0100, Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> a  
écrit:

> 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.
Alternatively, on 80 characters wide terminal, an editor may draw a frame,  
consuming one character on the left edge and one character the right edge  
(think about the EDIT.COM program coming with MS-DOS).

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