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Re:80 chars per line is great by caioariede on Monday March 25, 2013 @10:34AM (#5437139)
I love to work with a 79 chars per line limit.

For those using vim, I use this snippet to automatically split my window at startup:

https://coderwall.com/p/suj3fq

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Re:80 chars per line is great by q_revert on Monday March 25, 2013 @11:22AM (#5437454) 

    set colorcolumn=80
is another nice way to keep yourself within the bounds, it also has the bonus of not being a hard limit, just a visual indication that you're overstepping

edit: (already mentioned)

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