From: Dale A. <da...@gr...> - 2010-10-23 06:17:10
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Totally off topic -- I use jEdit to work on jEdit. I can't stand Eclipse for more than about 30 minutes. I'd much rather work with a few shortcomings and bugs in jEdit than fight with Eclipse all day. Seriously, there are 5 of us at work on a specific project, and our client changed the location of the 'src' directory. The Eclipse folks were down for 3 days, I was down for about 15 minutes, half of which was getting the current sync from Perforce, and most of the other half updating from maven. Dale On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Shlomy Reinstein <sre...@gm...>wrote: > Hi, > > I also vote against moving away from 80 characters, but it does have to do > with screen size as well if soft-wrap is not supported in the IDE. I > typically see only 90 characters per line on my screen, because I like to > keep some other panes on both sides of my text area while editing code. > Having to use a horizontal scrollbar is a nuisance. > > I use eclipse for working on jEdit, and so far haven't found how to get > soft-wrap to work. > > Shlomy > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Marcelo Vanzin < > va...@us...> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Matthieu Casanova >> <cho...@gm...> wrote: >> > In the opposite my lines are 210 chars width and I don't like very >> > much lines that are hard wrapped. >> >> Count my vote against moving away from 80 characters. >> >> It has nothing to do with screen size. It has to do with how much >> context you can generally keep in your brain, and how much you can see >> without having to move your head. 80 characters provide a good balance >> in that regard. You know, there's a reason why books are just so wide. >> >> Also, if your code is nested in such a way that it would need more >> than 80 characters, I'll say you're doing it wrong. >> >> -- >> Marcelo Vanzin >> mmv...@gm... >> "Life's too short to drink cheap beer." >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America >> contest >> Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada >> $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in >> marketing >> Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------- >> jEdit Developers' List >> jEd...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America > contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in > marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > jEdit Developers' List > jEd...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel > > |