Subject: Re: Time to update KNF?
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@isc.org>
From: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/19/2000 15:26:50
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Ted Lemon wrote:

> > Eventually, I hope we can dispense with 80 characters (like the Windows
> > world has already done) but for all the reasons mentioned here, I'm not
> > advocating changing that.
> 
> And go to what?   Any width one chooses will be inconvenient for
> someone, and 80 colums is a nice lowest common denominator, except for
> PalmPilot hackers.
> 
> 			       _MelloN_

I think we should stay at 80 characters for all the reasons people mentioned.

I'm arguing for 2-4 space indents.

-Mike