Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2007 00:46:25 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist |
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On 08/06/07, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007 17:17:18 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > > > The intel-rng printed a nice well formatted message when the port was > > > disabled. Someone then came along and blindly trashed it by screwing up a > > > trim down to 80 columns. > > > > Perhaps we should drop that 80-column style and use some 120+? > > X or no X, almost all people now have more lines and columns on their > > displays than MDA 20 years ago. > > > > 132 to match text VGA perhaps? > > 80 can be left for the actual _output_, I mean number of chars printed > > by kernel code. > > Why? My consoles are *all* still 80x24 text mode. It's only if I decide to > monkey with the settings (and why fix what isn't broken?) or when I'm in X > that I get a bigger screen than that. > > I think the general consensus on the 80 character lines isn't for the average > home user, but for the people that have things like old Wyse terminals and > such hooked up. >
Hmm, perhaps my eyes are just not as good as other peoples, but my X runs at 1600x1200 and I have konsole in KDE configured so that when it is maximized it is very close to a 80x25 window (actually it is 82x31 with a size 18 font). Nice and readable, if I make the font any smaller to fit more cols/rows then the text gets too small and my eyes hurt. Reading kernel code formatted for 80cols fits perfectly for me.
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