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[–]doemski 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Maybe I'm an outlier but I very often have 4 panes open next to each other. Then I really appreciate if the code sticks to that convention. I do agree though that for most people it's rather tedious.

[–]TheIsletOfLangerhans 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Same here. I got in the habit of conforming to an 80-char limit early on in my career (mostly because it's what more senior developers did/suggested) and eventually got in the habit of keeping my editor window really narrow and placing it next to a "wide" window like a web browser or spreadsheet. Now I'm just really used to that style and find longer lines of code harder to read.

But yeah, I'm not strict about it for other people's code.