On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Loui Chang <louipc....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue 29 Jun 2010 09:27 -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
>> Which is change the modelines? No thanks.
>>
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Bash_Coding_Style
>
> Neat. Where does the 132 columns come from?

Back in the day of real physical terminals, they were typically made
to display 80 columns on the screen. At some point, "wide terminals"
came out, supporting 132 columns.

I have no idea where the number came from, but both 80 and 132 are
standard column widths used for normal and wide terminals.

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