: Wide Screen Setup

[Darren Reely]

Mark Stewart wrote:

> Imagine coding in 132 mode for 8 hours a day.
>
I been doing this 5 days a week for years. It is not a problem, given a 
good monitor. I'm running Relection on a 19" CRT and usually work with 4 
overlapping screens. In other words, each screen is only 2/3 width of 
the display.

Still given my own preference, I'd have to say, only use greater than 80 
columns for screens when it makes sense. Out of 463 screens in our 
system, 1 is 132 columns.  So far I've been able to keep others to 80 
columns with some creative formatting and label tricks.  I also take 
advantage of clusters by making them shorter when I require another line.

Given my creativety, I suspect I may be forced into expanding a few 
screens this year. They are becoming very cluttered, and the information 
is tightly bound.

I've noticed most/many of my users have their terminal emulator set to 
use the entire screen. So even the 132 screen is very readable. The 
exception is the few VT terminals. But they tend to be sharp.

Darren