[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ogg muxer

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:23:42PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 00:35 +0200, Balatoni Denes wrote:
> >> Are you guys seriously using a 80x25 ascii terminal? 80 characters is less 
> >> than the half of the width of my terminal window. This "rule" IMO is just 
> >> braindead - or at least obsolete.
> >
> > I have a 80x55 XEmacs window, and my terminal windows are 80x24 each. I
> > think a window over 160 characters wide like yours is a waste of space.
> > Most of the time the right side will be going to waste. Even though
> > display sizes have increased limiting code width still makes sense
> > because using excessively wide editor windows gives a smaller benefit
> > than using the extra area for other information or functionality.
> 
> It should be added that code (or any text for that matter) is easier
> to read when you don't have to move your eyes side to side so much.

Agree. This braindamage of assuming everyone has 160-column terminals
is just as braindamaged as the windows-idiot-centric web design
principle of "optimized for NNNNxMMM!!!" Of course once the web
designers figured out that columns of text wider than a certain number
of characters (roughly 80) weren't readable, they filled the rest of
the screen with spam and sidebars rather than giving it back to the
user for other tasks...

Rich