From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 08:10:22 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2011070756260.6603@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201106014109.GP26296@mcvoy.com>
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I live on Linux and it has made some stuff
> pleasantly clickable. I use virtual desktops, I have 6 of them. There
> are xterms in 5 out of 6, the last one has firefox. I click but I
> mostly live in terminal windows. Which are all 80 columns because
> that's the right width (I can go on and on about that).
Almost all of my xterms are 80 cols for the same reason, but I do have one
that is about 160 cols for things like "sdiff" etc. Or if I'm feeling
nostalgic I'll use 120 cols :-)
They are also mostly 24 rows, except for a couple of 40-row ones for email
(more context) and source editing (ditto).
I was brought up on 80x24 (along with a status line which could be
addressed either with an escape sequence or the "25th row") so it feels
"right" for me (we'll ignore the 72x20 VT-05 for now).
-- Dave
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-06 21:12 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
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 [this message]
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