Re: Netbeans IDE 6.5

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:13 PM, John Black <spam@network-technologies.org> wrote: > James McLean wrote: >> >> I myself and I'm sure many others will agree that sticking to 'around' >> 80 chars is best-practice, it's handy for those times when you need to >> fix code in an emergency in an 80 col terminal, among other reasons. >> Personally the 80 col marker (I set it to 78 cols actually) is one of >> the first things I enable in Eclipse PDT.. > > I only use a character limit for email but I have a wide screen so write > code to the edge of the screen. > Updating code via a terminal connection is no problem either because vim > will wrap long lines. > So 80chars may have been a good idea a long time ago but I think that the > rule is a bit outdated. Personally I find wrapped vi/vim lines very annoying, hence why I stick to short lines where possible :) Cheers