Re:When 13.3 is greater than 14
by netule on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:47PM
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For writing, I have a 90° angled 27" 16:9 monitor at 1080x1920. It's absolutely unusable for programming since it barely fits 80 characters at a usable scale, but it's like having a giant page in front of me when using a word processor/text editor.
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Why is it usable for word processing but unusable for programming?
Re:When 13.3 is greater than 14
by munificent on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:53PM
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Word processors soft wrap text to whatever window width you want. Code editors need to be as wide as the code.
In the office I have two 1080x1920 panels, which can each display two columns of code with room to spare. I use the X11 6x13 “fixed” font, and emacs with fringes but without scrollbars, so each column is a few more than 80 characters wide.
At home I have two 1200x1920 panels, a bit more horizontal breathing room, but my code is still less than 80 wide :-)
Re:When 13.3 is greater than 14
by emayljames on Friday November 13, 2020 @05:21PM
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Atom, VSCode, Dreamweaver and others also use soft wrap by default.
Soft-wrapped code tends to be pretty difficult to read though. Certainly much more difficult than wrapped prose. Personally I prefer horizontal scrolling over wrapping code pretty much always (at least on a mac where horizontal scrolling is easy).
Xcode used to be really good at softwrapping code. It was so useful with the assistant editor on a laptop screen. It got worse at some point around Xcode 8 or 9, which was a shame.
(further to this, I realised earlier that it got better again in Xcode 11 - it no longer double-indents wrapped lines)
I can't imagine an editor without soft wrap as the default.
Sublime, wordpad, vim all use soft wrap.
Re:When 13.3 is greater than 14
by jacobwilliamroy on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:52PM
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Usually word processing and typesetting have word-wrap enabled. This is undesirable in a program. The 9:16 screen may still be useful for programming though, because it's nice to have some documentation out on another screen.
Gotta admit, I snorted meanly at the suggestion that 1080px isn't wide enough to fit an 80 column text display... Then felt old.
Re:When 13.3 is greater than 14
by Dylan16807 on Saturday November 14, 2020 @05:42AM
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It's not the pixels you need to worry about here, but the inches.
That said, "default" text (12pt at 96dpi) is around 140 monospace characters across a sideways 27 inch screen.