[om-list] Column Count in Code

[luke call]

On 04/26/16 13:22, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> This sounds like another argument for 80 -- for side-by-side panes.
> But for code formatting, it won't bother me until I read or write code.
> For use, it may well bother every user.

Thinking aloud:


In code: It seems like if anyone is coding in OM, and it helps them to 
reformat sections they work in to 80-100 chars, go for it.  Your 
contributions would probably be more valuable than a need for vertical 
conciseness, and one can always reformat it to longer lines as needed as 
well, right?


For limiting OM name sizes to 80 characters:

   pro: helps the demo for those w/ 80-column terminal windows, might 
make OM more usable to them, and a "name" perhaps doesn't really need to 
be longer than 80 characters, if we are really using it as a name, not 
as the data (ie use TextAttributes a little more).

   con: Sometimes, it is convenient to "model" data as sentences to be 
rearranged into actual text, or paragraphs where the containing sentence 
is like a topic sentence (a gist, where one can decide whether to read 
the paragraph or click the link or type the letter, to learn more).  And 
80 characters seems short for a hard limit on sentence length.

   Possibilities:
1- a modifiable user preference setting (but raises a compatibility 
question for data exchange).
2- try 80 for a while and discover some better solution for sentences or 
add the OM conveniences to make sentences work better as fully modeled 
info (per earlier recent thread).
3- maybe hendrik will decide to like 160, or it will actually be solved 
with GUIs as burundanga at gmx.com suggests (to which I agree: other UIs 
will be clearly needed, including mobile; hopefully I'll have some good 
fodder for sharing discussions coming up).
4- make it word wrap better, cleanly (but possibly that effort is better 
spent elsewhere for now)
5- some better idea

I'd be interested in comments, but especially if based on experience in 
actually using OM for a while. Anyone?  :)