Reply to post: Re: The real reason for fairly small line lengths

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

AndyS

Re: The real reason for fairly small line lengths

> Let's say I'm reading/writing code with the occasional line which is 200 characters long. And I'm not using a pretty-printing editor which will dynamically reformat code for me.

Isn't that the exact crux of Linus's argument? That you should get a better editor, which can handle this?

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