Re: Octave line length

[John W. Eaton]

On 1/13/20 5:18 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
> On 1/13/20 6:06 PM, Rik wrote:
> > On 01/13/2020 11:30 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > > On 1/13/20 11:02 AM, Rik wrote:
>
> > With that in mind, I would suggest we stop enforcing an 80-character
> > limit.  It isn't particularly important given that programmers are working
> > on 25" HiDPI monitors these days.  Instead, what I value is the clarity of
> > intent.
>
> Let's not go too long! Now that we have large monitors, some of us use
> them to fit multiple editor and console windows side-by-side. A limit of
> 80-100 lines is still useful in those cases. Also some of us are working
> on 13" laptops.
Is it easy to ask the reformatting tool to not break any expressions 
into multiple lines and then get a distribution of line lengths for all 
lines?  I think it would be interesting to see just how many lines are 
longer than 80, 90, 100, ... characters.

> And I'll bet there's some old curmudgeons in the Octave
> community still running on 80-column terminal emulators.

Emulator?!?  I still have a Wyse CRT terminal!  (But it's in a box and I 
haven't used it in many years.)

jwe