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Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work
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Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work |
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Sun, 4 Feb 2007 18:22:44 +0000 |
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On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:52:41PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> > .... but I want to be 'well behaved' and keep my
> > outgoing messages to less than 80 columns.
>
> the text-window luddites of world, we salute you!
>
It isn't *only* conservatism! :-)
There are very good ergonomic (if that's the right word for ease of
reading) reasons for keeping to something around 80 columns, the eye
works much better scanning columns around this size. Very long lines
are hard work to read.
--
Chris Green (address@hidden)
- [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work, cl, 2007/02/03
- Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work, Thomas Dickey, 2007/02/03
- Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work, cl, 2007/02/03
- Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work, Thomas Dickey, 2007/02/03
- Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work, cl, 2007/02/03
- Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work, Thomas Dickey, 2007/02/03
- Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work, cl, 2007/02/04
- Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work, Paul Fox, 2007/02/04
- Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work,
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