peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (03/13/89)
In article <Mar.12.17.20.24.1989.29073@athos.rutgers.edu>, gaynor@athos.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes: > - LONG AND SHORT LINES (outside of something like [20, 80]) are more > difficult to read... [50-60 is best] This probably depends on the format of the text, character size, and columns. Newspapers seem to do just fine with ~20 characters per line. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Personal: ...!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com.
kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones) (03/15/89)
gaynor@athos.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes: > - LONG AND SHORT LINES (outside of something like [20, 80]) are more > difficult to read... [50-60 is best] Peter da Silva) writes: >This probably depends on the format of the text, character size, and columns. >Newspapers seem to do just fine with ~20 characters per line. Newspapers do what they have to do pile as much stuff on a page as they can. Text layout suffers as a result. Too narrow columns, w i d e s p a c i n g, irregular vertical spacing and so on. But you can't expect the world for 25 cents.
kwb@hpmtlx.HP.COM ($Keith Blackwell) (03/17/89)
Well, how's this for tolerance: I use BOTH vi AND emacs (gnuvo) regularly and frequently. Vi has a few minor advantages that I like to take advantage of when editing short files. I haven't used some of the more advanced features of vi, but its drawbacks are enough to make emacs my "preferred" editor. Auto-save is an important feature that many vi users I have known have wished they had had --- after a disaster (yes, even competant vi users occassionally make stupid mistakes). But the original posting DID have a valid point: | AT&T should get together with Sammy Mitchell or | somebody who knows how to construct reasonable modern text editors and | come out with something up to 1989 standards for a text editor for V.4 The "standard" UNIX would do well to have a more advanced editor than vi. | and just get rid of vi which, along with nroff and troff and a couple This, however, is a dumb idea. It wouldn't be UNIX without vi. --- Keith "let's be reasonable, here" Blackwell