Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:38:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: wes@intele.net (Barnacle Wes) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <199606020838.KAA15752@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199605300432.WAA28640@intele.net> from "Barnacle Wes" at May 29, 96 10:32:35 pm
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Barnacle Wes writes: > > Michael Smith reported: > % Ehh, even the VT100 can handle 132 columns 8) > > Joerg Wunsch retorted: >> That doesn't make it better readable. Any text with more than ~ 60 >> ... 70 characters per line is unreadable. >> >> Not to speak about the eye-damaging small fonts required (not all of >> us can afford 29-inch monitors). > > Nah, just get a 17" monitor and use 12-point Lucidasans Typewriter. > With a 1024x768 X screen, it looks great at 110x40 or so... just > like what I see in front of me now! ;^) How do you get by with such a small display? Only 40 lines? I have 72, limited by the display resolution, and I could do with more. Greg
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