[Info-vax] [HS] Writer advice requested

[JF Mezei]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> I think 80 characters per line is enough for most people.


For text, yes.


But for coding, there are times when you like to indent your code as per
bested levels of "if", loops or whatever, and there are portions of a
program which will exceed that 80 columns. But it makes it more readable
on screen to have it exceed 80 columns than having to break individual
"commands" into multiple lines. (especially if you have strings in there
which some languages don't like to be broken up into multiple lines).