-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 06/06/15 17:21, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 06/06/2015 08:22 AM, Justin Lecher (jlec) wrote: >> >> * linewidth >> 80 (why do we have this short limit still in >> 2015) >> > > It's ancient typographic wisdom that the optimal measure (number of > characters in column of text) is somewhere between 45 and 75. It > varies somewhat depending on the typeface and the leading (spacing > between lines, more or less), but everyone agrees that anything > over 80 is uncomfortable to read. > > There's always one guy who will claim that he's perfectly > comfortable reading a single line of text that extends into his > kitchen; rather than argue, the old 80-character terminal thing > gets cited. So that's not the real reason but you still hear it > because it's less subjective. >
While I generally understand and agree with your argument, we are talking about problems which arise because of indention adding whitespaces in front. That means the effective content to read is much shorter. Plus it is markup so we have a significant portion of the line being semi-important to read. Justin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVcxR7XxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ0QUU0N0I4NzFERUI0MTJFN0EyODE0NUFF OTQwMkE3OUIwMzUyOUEyAAoJEOlAKnmwNSmiusEP/3w9ldEOGD0HwUThJwN9m+3+ EA415TX0onbq2zOG7nj+8DvNHj/TAh/wz3cP+rl90D1q/fOdRGV9hHpQMeAhQVTT f7zpE9Kf9Em6Cv+DZMnK6HYWm9n51cDtoMVZZvKoyOwjM/kmAvFjwQx8EfYrOJ+p Ch7ceEv7j3TORWV6QynFtLSQtCvBckvgNwnuIHmyUfi+begt+LnpgB8Is4HfJgQr 0YPmP+pZFl0trmKQS6vyHTpEK2HqZ9OPIPFFwA6mjABesYe+qTt9FDgTf+CPzHVo rSM6F+82p+ZybShH+K7NNWKT17X0ePQf2+mKoSDVspft12+QKrZ2ceJnr4TOGVK4 mwYYkxcPatTNi5dkEL9JzQxiq5+hMPsDYJJDHdMldEmaubW5mP+0t1o7KPugQxF+ naX+Dxlbd7murkXOJw+9/3R2DlXLxPudlkTbggINSgZsa6ZQQnB3A/hFh+FgANZY +SPBpgGKTNVf3I13DydIVtvzPgIzHd69xD3jrNFD/wjHr78Ot/0gnpw0Sf9O6eeB Mbjnl/I2FyMzKA8y1kVlCCcivm88VrdPzt/E0yoRxKjCxaqzyrMzCpk5XPzpfR2t mJOYYYBoBsojDEtqUAGm30d6CJ6tHo9ChnFt8zFc7MNECwLyEqZe6V68IC7vifB5 Jsqwbqrsc0tnwdaJfKMA =q6KY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
