> > Now I feel like 80 is too high (;´Д`)
> 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)
> 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.
> 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
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
Reference: 2023/03/07(Tue) 15:09:11