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I’m an 80 cols person, and I admit to be low-key enraged by wide lines. I really like having lots of side-by-side editors and a terminal, and long lines bust that, and I resent what feels like a lack of sensitivity for others’ workflows in many modern tools that generate wide lines.

That said, I try and practice what I preach and let my coworkers who are into wide lines (120, woof) have ‘em. I just run a formatter after I check code out, ez. Everyone should do this, online diffs should default auto format to 80 cols (but configurable), and we should put this debate to rest.



Why should online diffs auto format to 80 cols? Shouldn't that be up to the user?


Sorry I ninja edited you. Diffs with wide lines don’t always fit on screens; but if you have a wide monitor, set it to 400 for all I care.




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