Fri, 30 Mar 2018 08:23:12 -0700 Chris Bennett <cpb_t...@bennettconstruction.us> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:57:43PM +0000, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > I *could* maybe teach man(1) to honour $COLUMN by default when > > starting up in interactive mode, but i did not do so for the following > > reasons: > > > > * Many people are using terminals wider than 80 columns, but > > texts get hard to read when much wider than that. Very long > > lines become hard to follow. (That's why newspapers usually > > have columns of even less than 80 characters, but they don't > > have as much indentation as manual pages either.) > > This is very important. Our brains just are not good at working with > long lines. This is hard-wired. If anyone doesn't believe me, try
Hi Chris, Technical limitation of historic hardware, miscellaneous topics > misc@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#IBM_80-column_punched_card_format_and_character_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_per_line#History Kind regards, Anton Lazarov
