On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Chris Bennett
<cpb_t...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote:
> 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
> setting your browser window to a narrower width or use reader mode.
> We read by mapping things out on the line. If it's too long, our brains
> get "confused" and information is lost.
Is there any research backing this up? I've seen this sentiment twice
in this thread, but man's column limit has always been the most
dreaded part about man for me. (I'm very happy to find I can change it
with -Owidth) I've found that doubling it to 160 columns has always
been far, far more comfortable for me, so I have doubt that the 80/78
column limit is anything more than a tradition looking for any reason
to continue existing.
If a user resizes their terminal before running a program, it makes
perfect sense for text to wrap to the terminal's size, just like with
programs that simply use stdout to output text.
