Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Feb 2012 22:30:33 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Increase the line length limit from 80 to 100 colums |
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 10:55:45PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Friday 2012-02-03 11:07, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Increase the line length limit from 80 to 100 colums
> >As far as I'm aware I was the last regular kernel contributor who > >still used a standard VGA text console, but both text (100 cols is > >also arguably closer to various brain limits such as vision of field > >and resolution restrictions
> Please, no.
> (Corollary 1) The older you get, the larger you like your glyphs to > be (...and the FOV is likely to lower as well).
> 14pt and up usually. And there is not a whole lot that fit on > 10.1-inch netbook screens that way.
> (Corollary 2) Travelers desire minimizing size and weight.
Or your vision is a bit better but you like multiple things over the screen width...
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