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From: Chris Torek <torek@elf.torek.net>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 07:19:24 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202011061519.0A6FJOAx034308@elf.torek.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201106150609.GR26296@mcvoy.com>

>> I think you're jumping to conclusions.  The importance of 80
>> characters (for small values of 80) is that it's a comfortable text
>> width for human eyes.  

>Exactly this.

Yes -- this is the (or at least "an") argument for two-column text
on wide (8.5x11 or A4, or larger) paper pages.

>It's also why I'm fine with smaller screens, I tried the giant apple
>displays and found that those required head movement along with eye
>movement.

>I'm lazy.

I am too, but I still use a big screen: I just fit a lot of
smaller windows in it.  I'd like to have a literal wall screen,
especially if I'm in an interior, windowless (as in physical glass
windows) room, so that part of the wall could be a "window"
showing a view "outside" (real time, or the ocean, or whatever)
and other parts of the wall could be the text I'm working on/with,
etc.

(But I'll make do with these 27" 4k displays. :-) )

Chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-05 22:10 Tyler Adams
2020-11-06  0:39 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-11-06  1:41 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06  5:04   ` John Cowan
2020-11-06  5:16     ` Steve Nickolas
2020-11-06  6:34     ` Rob Pike
2020-11-06 13:20       ` Will Senn
2020-11-06 15:07         ` Clem Cole
2020-11-06 15:40           ` Will Senn
2020-11-06 15:46             ` Chris Torek
2020-11-06 22:54               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-11-06 23:29                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-11-06 22:31           ` Dave Horsfall
2020-11-06 23:41             ` Warren Toomey
2020-11-06  6:37     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-11-06 15:06       ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 15:18         ` Bakul Shah
2020-11-06 15:19         ` Chris Torek [this message]
2020-11-06 16:46           ` Stephen Clark
2020-11-06 18:51         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-06 22:09           ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 22:44             ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-06 22:12         ` Andy Kosela
2020-11-06 22:23           ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-07  0:16             ` Dave Horsfall
2020-11-08 23:23               ` George Michaelson
2020-11-06 17:05       ` Paul Winalski
2020-11-06 17:07         ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 17:25           ` Warner Losh
2020-11-06 17:13       ` Adam Thornton
2020-11-06 17:26         ` Stephen Clark
2020-11-06 18:24           ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 21:10   ` Dave Horsfall

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