From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: bob@rattlesnake.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Man-width on terminals
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:54:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ve8cyz46.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1Ipxga-002K4AC@rattlesnake.com> (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Thu, 8 Nov 2007 03:04:04 +0000 (UTC)")
> With more inter-line whitespace, you can have longer lines. The
> maximum reasonable length for the contents of a line with lots of
> inter-line whitespace turned out to be about 70 characters. Computer
> terminals have the whitespace needed, so they are seldom narrow. And,
> for the same reason, terminals seldom had more than 80 characters.
> (That is also why cards on which FORTRAN was written had only 80
> characters.)
>
> Of course, if you wish to make your manual page width be less than 70
> characters, that is fine. I am against long lines that need more
> inter-line whitespace than many writers provide.
As an xterm can have arbitrary width, users are free to resize it to the
comfortable width. And I think Man should fill the text to a width
preferred by the user (there is a special option `Man-width').
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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2007-11-08 0:54 Man-width on terminals Juri Linkov
2007-11-08 3:04 ` Robert J. Chassell
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