I checked two commits and they both had exactly the same number of chars per line, e.g. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/c4c812c15445f5c3...
I enjoy doing this too sometimes and don't find it too difficult, but damn...
I enjoy doing this too sometimes and don't find it too difficult, but damn...
I enjoyed the video. However, both the author and Donald Keith strike as two people who are mainly motivated by aesthetics (which is supremely ironic as they almost define themselves as being the opposite of Loren Ipsum). I like people who deliver results.
I think the author mostly likes the appearance of someone who pays attention to detail. He says that in a movie if it's obvious that the coffee cups are empty, he notices and bothers him. 3 minutes later in his video he has a guy using his laptop at the beach where glare would make it impossible to see anything on the screen.
/s
It was fun, once practised it barely slowed me down, and when people noticed it blew their minds.
Then along came GUIs and proportional fonts and made it all invisible. :'(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart#Writing_style
See examples at http://hart.pglaf.org/ .
Those commits were
72-chars per line.
Which is easier to
do than EXACTLY 80
character per linehttps://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-mess...
Now I am wondering if somehow, some ancient COBOL limit ended up in git because every tool picked it up as convention from an older tool.