<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Colin Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colinpauladams@gmail.com" target="_blank">colinpauladams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm not viewing on a narrow device, and I see the wrapped (and the whole post confined to the centre of the screen).<div><br></div><div>I certainly don't use an 80-column limit any more. I use the rule:</div><div>
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</div><div>A function must be completely visible in my editor on my screen. (but this is only a good rule if most people who will be reading the code will also have a similar sized viewport. After all, code is far more often read than written.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>And I balance line length with function length.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br>Very good point: getting the line to fit in one screen-line is of comparable importance to getting a function into one screen.<br><br>And especially when one is teaching, (as Roman easily figured out!) having to scroll up and down in the midst of explanations is a certain show-spoiler.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Mike Meyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mwm@mired.org" target="_blank">mwm@mired.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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the other hand, readable cross-platform text formatting always seems to
be a lost cause, as this mail and the referenced blog posting
demonstrate.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Sent from my Android tablet with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my swyping.<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br>As for the wraparound problems, hopefully they are now solved (for normal computers!)<br>I'd appreciate hearing if they are not.<br>And Thanks Colin for the debugging support!<br>
<br>Clearly prettifying code and prettifying a blog are different issues and putting them together makes a harder constraint-solving problem (especially for a blogger noob!)<br><br>Rusi<br>