From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Sedach <vas@oneofus.la>, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:25:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=XH8CExFCd3borSnYFWckNddnUoaVTYTAqY9Tts4hhHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d02pmsi7.fsf@t510.orion.oneofus.la>
Vladimir Sedach <vas@oneofus.la> 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.
For published books? On dead trees (a.k.a. "paper")? Sure. But note
that this optimal figure could go as high as 75 characters depending on
which source you quote.
I personally haven't seen any research that shows that what is
applicable to reading prose or newspaper copy in print is also
applicable to reading and understanding code on a screen. I would have
assumed that these cases are different. Just to give one example,
monospace fonts are a nightmare to read in a book but works well for
code.
(In any case, this proposal seems impopular enough that it's unlikely to
happen. Oh, well.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-15 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-13 13:45 Changing line widths in the Emacs source code Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 13:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 14:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 15:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 16:51 ` Yuan Fu
2020-09-13 16:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 17:55 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-13 18:04 ` arthur miller
2020-09-13 17:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-13 17:54 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-13 14:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-09-13 18:38 ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-09-13 20:13 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-13 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-13 21:23 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-14 0:08 ` Tim Cross
2020-09-13 23:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2020-09-14 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-14 2:28 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-14 7:42 ` tomas
2020-09-14 9:59 ` Alan Third
2020-09-15 7:25 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-09-13 14:53 ` Daniel Martín
2020-09-13 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 17:23 ` Andy Moreton
2020-09-13 17:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 18:07 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-13 15:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-13 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-13 14:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-13 17:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-13 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-13 17:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-13 17:34 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-16 6:42 ` jeremyb
2020-09-13 15:28 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-13 15:43 ` Óscar Fuentes
2020-09-13 17:07 ` Amin Bandali
2020-09-13 18:01 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-13 18:17 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-14 3:50 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-14 19:25 ` David Koppelman
2020-09-15 8:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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