[TUHS] 80 columns ...

[Dan Cross]

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>[..]
>> And I made the point about side by side diff tools.
>
> But what about 3-way merge tools?

Another small point about this: consider that `diff` et al prepend
special characters to the beginning of a line in their output. So if
one wants to run e.g., `diff -u a.c b.c`, and the line-length limit in
a source file is 80 characters, then won't one see a non-trivial
amount of either wrap-around or truncation in diff output? This,
again, begs the question of why not use a shorter line-length limit
than the presumed maximum screen width?

        - Dan C.