On Friday, 30 July 2010, at 09:11:11 (+0900), Carsten Haitzler wrote: > yes.. and if i maximize my terms i get 383x101... if i made my fonts smaller > and got some 30" screens i'd get more. moot point.
Not a moot point at all. The point is that, in this day and age, most users are no longer constrained by the 80 column limit, and for the few who are, there is an easy way for them to toggle to 132 columns. There's even a binding for it in screen (C-a W). So that particular value has significance in being easy to obtain, common to almost all terminals, and significantly more readable. It's not just some random width that only applies to a particular user. The number 80 was chosen for a reason. The number 132 could be chosen for almost as good a reason. This is not the case for *any* other width, including 85. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <m...@kainx.org> Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "God hears them cry. (Thou shalt not kill.) You hear the lie. (Do what you will.) And you simply look the other way." -- Holy Soldier, "See No Evil" (re abortion) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
