Open Stack

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Ravi Kumar Pasumarthy
<ravikup at thoughtworks.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Looks like the current column limit for the code base is 80. Because of this
> large space on the right hand side is not used. Please find the attached
> pictures of couple of developer screens working on openstack codebase.
>
> Are there any thoughts to increase the current column limit to 120 atleast.
>
> How does this help ? I can see more lines of code, it is easier on the eyes.
> Some external monitors supports rotation, but for laptops we cannot rotate.
>
> So is it possible to revisit the column number limit ?


It looks from the screenshots that the common thread is using GUI
IDE's. Using vim/emacs with splits, 3 views can be comfortably seen
side by side on most high dpi monitors at 80 columns which is totes
useful when coding against multiple projects at the same time.

Happy Hacking!

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