Curious if 132 characters per line would work for most people.
I don't mind going past 80, but would still want some de-facto standard, and there's a fair amount of precedent for 132.
I don't mind going past 80, but would still want some de-facto standard, and there's a fair amount of precedent for 132.
The rationale for the 110 is that above that you cannot avoid wrapping in a side-by-side diff on a reasonable screen+font+layout. 90 is where you should be asking yourself "is this cleaner to split across multiple lines?" and still allowing some headroom to make minor changes without needing to reformat things.
There are of course some things where it is impossible to constrain things to shorter lines (e.g., markdown tables) but those are definitely the exception.
As part of VT-100 compatibility, many subsequent terminals also supported 132 column mode.
I always kind of figured "132" was some arbitrary programmer decision, never knew it dated to old terminals. At least I recognize 24 and 43 as the number of lines old text modes (on, eg, VGA) had.
I know the DEC VT340 was capable of 132 columns, as was an Apple II with a Videx Ultraterm card and a suitable (hi-res) monitor.
There are probably even more examples, but those two are what came to mind first.