From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 01:45:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87k0wxjl6j.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <87tuw1x016.fsf@gnus.org> <20200913142210.GA4285@ACM> <87d02pmsi7.fsf@t510.orion.oneofus.la> <87o8m9sadk.fsf@gkayaalp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4814"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:uGk1To/afQMpj8KK6UUszzZNL2g= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 14 01:46:01 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kHbh3-00018X-1e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 01:46:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49402 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHbh2-0006fx-3o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 19:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41016) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHbgL-0006A4-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 19:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:45996 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHbgJ-00025o-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 19:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kHbgH-0000Ao-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 01:45:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/13 19:45:13 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255591 Archived-At: Göktuğ Kayaalp writes: > On 2020-09-13 21:38 +03, Vladimir Sedach wrote: >> Alan Mackenzie writes: >> The optimum line length for legibility has been found to be 55-60 >> characters over hundreds of years of book publishing experience. 90 >> characters per line is considered the absolute maximum, and you >> rarely see it. "Today's wide screens" is as bad of a reason for >> increasing line length in text files as "today's wide paper" would be >> an excuse to increase line length in books. > > Not to refute any other points here, but this is an oft-mentioned > factoid, yet code is not prose, so how relevant this is is questionable. > Most importantly, a decent chunk of an average line is indentation: Keeping track of indentation level adds to cognitive load, so we can't dismiss leading unused columns as irrelevant.