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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?
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Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings? |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:03:52 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>
> Tom Lord wrote:
> > Please learn to format/structure your code more like me. No, that
> > isn't an ego thing. I *will* write up a fresh coding standards
> > document with some rationales attached (since nobody gets all the
> > (non-randomly chosen) details right). For now, please try harder to
> > fake it.
> Okay, I'm happy to do that. Do you prefer 79-char widths?
It varies depending on context. In most parts of header files and in
declarations (including function declarations which are part of a
function definition) I prefer --- I forget off the top of my
head.... around 65 or 66 character widths. This relates to content
that needs to be printed, verbatim, in a largish font, on a normal
piece of paper, in portrait orientation.
In the bodies of functions -- and yes, this is something that freaks
some people out -- I prefer something in the range of 160-240
characters: the width that fits on a screen.
Prior to ttys, wider lines were there. Post ttys, wider lines were
there. Classical ttys are an environmental disaster. Basically, I
don't care (for many purposes) about the width of a vt52. As for
printing: imaging-based printers can handle wide code with no problem:
landscape mode is always handy for printing code. In a pinch, there's
always line printers.
My gosh: programmers should really learn to use big windows and the
tiniest fonts they can read. The more information you compress on
to the screen (or page) -- the better off you are.
> I'd been assuming something wider, based on code I looked at,
> but your changes seem to wrap nicely in an 80-char terminal.
What editor do you use? If the breaks don't go in insane place, plus
with the "harmonics" in my preferred 160..240 vs. 80-character lines
.... what you describe is a hardly surprising and happy accident.
> > It's a "nobody cares about this stuff" file.
> I'm not sure what you mean, but I can tell you there have been heated
> debates about user input stuff.
No, just the code.
Here, my own code ... all I can see are the flaws. Hackerlab is
closest to good.
But.... go get a classic release of Tcl/Tk .... read the code for a
few hours..... then compare to cmdutils.c
Which of these two systems are you more interested in using, on the
basis of that comparison alone?
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Michael Poole, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Michael Poole, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Tom Lord, 2004/08/28
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Tom Lord, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Aaron Bentley, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Aaron Bentley, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Miles Bader, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Tom Lord, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Jeremy Shaw, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Robin Green, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Jan Hudec, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?, Jan Hudec, 2004/08/28