72 inch wrap. Was: A Couple of Incoherent Questions

[Lloyd D Budd]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:44:43 -0500, Bill Mudry <billmudry-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> >Now did you ever hear that thing about wrapping lines at around 72
> >characters or so, for those people using 80 character displays? :)
> 
> Hope you don't mind my asking, Lennart. How prevalent are 80 character
> displays these days anyways? With the high res displays many people
> have I would have thought that they would be largely a thing of the past.
> I use a resolution of 1280 x 1024.
> 
> Sure wish they put character rulers in email clients.I don't relish literally
> counting out 72 characters each time I want to write a message to either
> list. Hmm <chuckle> maybe I should literally measure how much that is
> in inches with an actual ruler. That would be faster than counting ;-).
> Isn't there a point at which old standards are eventually abandoned in the
> Linux world? That 72 character wrap goes waaay back.

See an archived thread , specifically the post
	From: 	  taavi
	Subject: 	Re: [TLUG]: Why wrap @ 80?
	Date: 	April 23, 2004 23:35:10 PDT 
Because it's easier to read.  With more than about 66 characters to a
line, your eyes start to have trouble flipping from one side of the
paragraph to the other.
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/8172>

That post and that discussion of this topic on this list is my fav ,
but it has also be been discussed many other times ;-)

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Lloyd D Budd
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