Yeah wish for the good ol days (Sigh)<br>When I was a C programmer (and equally haskell, lisp, assembly...) I used a console and left fonts (and X) to the sissies who liked eye-candy.<br>Today I work with ruby on rails -- involves at any time 10-15 buffers to be **simultaneously** manipulated selected from close to a hundred files.
<br><br>All to be done on a 15 inch monitor (until Monday when my machine was hacked into when I carelessly left my root open and sshd running!).&nbsp; Now it wont boot and so I&#39;m on my 14 inch laptop.<br><br><br><br>Now what is it you were saying about 80 columns ??
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"><br><br><br><br>On 5/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bruce Korb</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:bkorb@gnu.org">bkorb@gnu.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Rustom Mody wrote:<br>&gt; How do you folk manage editing code?<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I find that with a fixed width font (courier) I run out of screen space<br><br>All code is narrow enough to fit on a hollerith card (80 columns).
<br>How could you run out of screen space?<br></blockquote></div><br>