On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:19:05AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > I don't see why. 80 columns has been the standard layout for > something like 40 or 50 years or so. It is the standard punch card > width and required to display Fortran code fitted to this width > (column 73 to 80 are ignored in non-free-format Fortran and used for > line identification). I almost said that, but it seems unnecessarily restrictive. Do people use git on handhelds (or use them to connect to decent machines that run git)? If it's related to the actual functioning of the program, then fine, but it seems unnecessarily strict for something that is just eye candy anyway. > All people using smaller terminals are used to wrapping trouble. We That is a good point...people on tiny screens are likely to be wrapping on the _other_ lines anyway. I wonder how awful our progress meters look on a tiny terminal. Really, I'm fine with assuming an 80 char terminal. I just didn't want to be in the position of defending it as a useful feature when somebody complained. -Peff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
