120 is a minimum IMO and used in many Apache projects. I've used 140 as well at work. I use a laptop with an external monitor but both run at standard "16:9 1080/HD" res.
Gary On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Nick Williams < nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> wrote: > I would be 100% against shortening the line length. 120 characters seems > short enough as it is. I use 140 characters for my personal work. > > What is your resolution? I have room for 140 characters in the IDE on both > of my laptops. > > N > > On Aug 22, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Remko Popma wrote: > > I do most of my log4j work at home on my laptop. It has a decent screen, > but not huge. I often find myself having to horizontally scroll because the > max line length is a lot longer than what fits on my screen. > > Does anyone else feel the same way? I would really like to make the max > line length shorter. > > Personally I would prefer having 80-char lines, but if that is too short, > would 100 characters as the max line length be acceptable? > > Remko > > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
