◆ [Date updated: 2023/03/07(Tue) 14:31:30]
■Now I feel like 80 is too high (;´Д`)
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└■The reason I (and many graybeards of old) use 72ch per line is cuz many
│terminals back in the day were 80 columns wide, which derives from the
│programming punch cards of early computers (the big ones that took up a
│whole room)
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│Many of those early machines would only read and compile the first 72
│columns of the card, and the remaining 8 columns would be used for
│metadata, flags to say a line was a comment, etc.
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│When things moved to terminal displays in the 70s, writing in 72ch
│lines on 80 columns left you room to comment things out, add ">" s for
│quoting, and more ヽ(´ー`)ノ
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I see. Now I think it just looks better, so I set it to 72 ( ´ω`)
It's still acting a bit weird on replying page, adding unnecessary spaces
between commented lines despite them not passing 72ch
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