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Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:53:33 +0100
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Le Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:17:34 +0100, Stephen Leake  =

<stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> a =C3=A9crit:
>> and almost impossible to have a side by side view to resolve merge
>> conflicts (with meld, diffuse...)
>
> No problem on a 24" 1920 x 1024 display.
Mine which I feel is big, is =E2=80=9Conly=E2=80=9D 1440 x 900, so less.=
 Many laptops are  =

less too. And there is an increase limit: the smaller the pixel is, the =
 =

more you are likely to need increase font size. Higher screen definition=
  =

does not imply larger text width. Even printed book have a limit, althou=
gh  =

its printed paper (which is very high definition).

>> Newspaper have short lines to help read fast. Longer the line is,
>> harder it
>> is to go back to the next line.
>
> Yes, but there is also such a thing as "too short". The optimum length=

> depends on the length of the individual words, and on the typical amou=
nt
> of indentation.
>
> Reading natural language prose is _not_ the same process as reading Ad=
a
> code.

Agree too.


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