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by 3pt14159 1592 days ago
Well, sorta. It's really, really mentally annoying switching between projects where standards are different. For example 80 char limit to 120 char limit takes me at least a month to fully get used to. I agree black is better than the alternative, I agree it has downsides, I'm happy some of the parameters are tunable, but I'm also glad most of them are not. I just want to write software with tools I'm used to.
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Who is using 120 chars?!?!? I can certainly understand the adjustment difficulties...
Are 120 chars bad?
Maybe it's because I only have one eye and the resulting slightly reduced width of field, but wide lines drive me crazy. I need to see the whole line without scanning. This was one of python's original appeals to me...

https://pep8.org/#maximum-line-length

I can see how that would make it hard for you. I hope your team is accommodating.
I'm like her in that I have eye issues and thus can't use screens that are too large (16" absolute maximum) and even there it needs to be with large font. I wish everyone had stayed with 80 chars so I could have two vertical emacs buffers, but I've sorta gotten used to these ugly wrap around lines.

I wish people just used more locals though. I don't see what the problem is and it makes Sentry errors easier to debug.

Having two vertical buffers/terminals side by side in a single screen is so useful!
God made the ASR-33 teletype with 80 columns for a reason.
200 chars FTW
moi