On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:35 PM, AK <andrei....@gmail.com> wrote: > As monitors are getting bigger, is there a general change in opinion on > the 79 chars limit in source files? I've experimented with 98 characters > per line and I find it quite a bit more comfortable to work with that > length, even though sometimes I have to edit files in 80 width > terminals, it's still easier to adapt to some inconvenience when that > happens than the other way around, since about 95% of time or more, I do > use wider editor window or terminal. > > Is going over 79 still a terrible thing to do? -andrei
My personal opinion (despite monitors being wider) is the horizontal scrolling isn't worth it. Stick to a 80-char width. cheers james -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list